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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortcomings of a sermon is that it generally undertakes to tell people what someone else thinks they ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nonpoisonous Painter | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...Make Way for Tomorrow) out of two years of fruitless bondage to erratic Producer Howard Hughes. Ginger Rogers, who can pick & choose her vehicles, thought the story was too good to pass up. Gary Grant was paid a reputed $175,000 to play opposite her. Such a lustrous combination ought to have worked well, but it does not work as well as it ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...beginning to look as if someone ought to make up Henry Luce's mind. After a series of articles on the contributions of America's colleges to the war effort, LIFE's feature in last week's issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Goes to a College | 11/27/1942 | See Source »

...that-be, I think that one of the networks should give Mildred an exclusive fifteen minute sustaining program, preferably with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

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