Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President observed, on a radio broadcast with Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, the seventh anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Said Manuel Quezon: "The story of American-Filipino cooperation is something that every citizen of the United States ought to know and take pride...
...fellowship, when he decided to marry one of his former pupils and to abandon psychology for painting. Yale objected to both decisions. Result: Mr. and Mrs. 'Haucke rented a cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part in it. So he got a job with Bethlehem Shipbuilding's Staten Island Yard, now works ten hours a night repairing valves on torpedo-gashed ships. Valves stimulate Haucke so much that he paints whenever he is not working, sometimes sleeps only two hours...
...Senate Finance Committee, Republican members Vandenberg and Taft and Democrats Byrd and Chairman George all favor some form of pay-as-you-go. Last week never-say-die Beardsley Ruml was once again campaigning: "Nothing can be gained," cried portly, ebullient Mr. Ruml, "by arguing that people ought to have saved the tax on last year's income. The fact is that they did not do it and now they cannot...
...post-war world, as Sorokin saw it last night, was divided into what it ought to be, and what it will be. "There is a fighting chance that you, of this college generation, and the next generation, will be able to make the world what it should be, rather than what it will be if we do not have tenacity," he told his audience...
...they couldn't cut those blue coats better, Vag thought. War was all very well, but a woman's a woman. Ought to be. Hall, they'd better pass the 18 year draft, even, if this was what they were using for sailors. "Well at least you'll be here in college a while, eating and getting letters," he said...