Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitching, a weak point last year, ought to improve with the return of Charlie Brackett and Johnny Schwede, both definitely better than last year. Burgy Ayres, a late starter because of hockey, undoubtedly will also see action, for he is touted as the leading pitcher this season. Catching for these hurlers will be Bob Regan who gets the nod over Bill Parsons...
...penalty, ingeniously argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
...meeting is a plea by the sponsors for free and open expression of the points of view of the student body, the teaching staff, and the financial authorities. Emphasis has been placed on the admitted lack of student understanding of the problems involved, but it is felt that undergraduates ought to have access to fuller information and to a larger share in the reaching of decisions "which concern them so directly...
...expansive effort of a capitalism seeking to compensate for its inherent contradictions. It was likewise common sentiment that a society in which war is a permanent or even a recurrent phenomenon does not have the approval of the Harvard Economics Department. All agreed that the post-war world ought to be one in which reorganization in the interests of permanent peace and justice will take place. Most viewed this as meaning an international order based on cooperative commonwealths of one sort or another...
...then in letters "full of religious fervor"), elegant little British Davis Cup Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin suffered public paternal rebuke. Cried Austin pere to London's press: "I have not answered his letters because there is nothing I can usefully say. I have been told I ought to be proud of Bunny for his good work. I should be much prouder if I were taking him to Buckingham Palace to receive...