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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With invasion so close, a good many important people thought that every available defense force ought to be kept on the mainland, that men and material should even be snatched back from war fronts abroad. Quite different was the opinion of The Dutch East Indies' Lieut. Governor General Dr. Hubertus van Mook, who was in Sydney last week. Throw everything possible to Java, urged Hubertus van Mook, and Java can be saved from capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Feeling the Crunch | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Judiciary Committee, who introduced the bill in the House: "I want to protect essential secrets from being disclosed to the enemy, but I want also to protect the people of this democracy in the opportunity to know the things which they ought to know in order to govern it." Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Frederick Van Nuys spoke even more emphatically: He promised that Attorney General Biddie's War Secrets Bill "will undergo as close a scrutiny as any that has ever come before the Judiciary Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gag Bill | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...sharp? Do you merkle? Or are you shill-shocked?" are some of the questions on the Senior Album Poll which was distributed yesterday. Coles H. Phinizy '42, ex-president of the Lampoon, who made up the questions, ought to know the answers if anyone does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS' SECRETS REVEALED BY POLL | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...support of Morse, Loreu G. MacKinney '42, president of the Student Council said: "I certainly don't think we ought to have anything that will put us into debt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Approve Simple Class Day | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...Dying. While he got ready for the flight, a deep longing possessed Saint-Exupéry to survive into the night, wherein "I might discover why it is I ought to die." He felt "like a Christian abandoned by grace." He knew he was about to do a job "honorably," but "as one honors ancient rites when they have no longer any significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If it die | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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