Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foot in Heaven" is a lot better than it ought to be. Basically it's nothing more than the time-worn saga of the kindly country minister--he could just as well have been a doctor or a lawyer--and his self-sacrificing wife who endure a multitude of hardships and finally win the happiness they're looking for. It's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this film, it's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this...
...crowded Washington set a different bee buzzing in the bonnet of Indiana's Representative Earl Wilson. He thought there ought to be a 10 p.m. curfew to help Heaven protect the Government working girl. The girls all said that Heaven was plenty of protection, thank you very much...
...January 22, even though James J. Storrow, United States Fuel Administrator, had personally endorsed the plan, it was voted down by the student body 689 to 393. There were several editorials in the CRIMSON advocating the plan, but the general opinion among the student body was that fuel conservation ought to be left up to the individual students...
Buckling down for Winsocki has less appeal than hitting the line for Harvard. At least that's the opinion of a young lady who ought to know. She's Maureen Cannon, sparkling ingenue lead of the Broadway hit, "Best Foot Forward," who thinks that prep school boys, even if they're from Winsocki, are small-time compared to "some of those Harvard...
...vacancies exist. The chances may be good, but the hitch should be publicized nevertheless. It would also have been a good idea to point out that the course, to be effective, must be followed up by approximately eight months of further training under the Far Eastern Department. Prospective students ought also to be told that Geography 10b, Biology 23, Biology 119, and Biology 121, "which are of significance in the conduct of forces in the field," lead nowhere, as far as the Army is concerned. The Army has its own courses...