Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berrien doubts whether U.S. colleges and universities will ever accept this intensive method of teaching foreign languages, but he thinks they ought to. Says he: "If we are now lacking engineers, agronomists and economists with a knowledge of Spanish or French, it is not altogether the fault of the U.S. people who can't learn languages' but also partly of educators who have failed to relate language to the activities and interests of men in different fields of work. The materials used heretofore in language teaching have been too exclusively limited to fiction, a good portion...
...their last match of the season, the Varsity and Freshman fencing teams will cross swords with Yale tomorrow afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. On the basis of past performances, the Crimson ought to be able to take over the Blue, but the Yale squad should give a good account of itself...
...Supreme Allied Commander, had surrendered his command and the responsibility for Java's defense, returned to his old post at the head of British forces in India and Burma. The defense of Java, still with some Allied aid, was now where Dutchmen all along had thought it ought to be: in the hands of a Dutchman, the Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer...
...prairies, the Winnipeg Free Press roared that "brass hats" who considered an Alaska invasion an impossibility "ought to have their heads examined." In Toronto, Alex Walker, president of the Canadian Legion, which has been leading recent demands for all-out aid to Britain, began to speak of "grave, personal danger [which] confronts every man, woman and child in all our provinces bordering on the two oceans...
...mostly a missionary area. Episcopalians, who may know these facts but are not altogether aware of them, had their ears seized and shouted in this week, when the Rev. J. Lindsay Patton of Berkeley, Calif, not only declined his election as Bishop of San Joaquin but said the bishopric ought to be abolished...