Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...However, there are certain considerations that ought to be taken into account...
...jump off a monument, the sensation is fine as long as you keep going" (Representative Richard Wigglesworth, Massachusetts); "The deficit . . . threatens the solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today...
...with a little more time Adolf Hitler would surely find means to bluff or persuade Stalin and either satisfy or scare Boris III. Boris ought to scare, for his chance of getting adequate aid from either Greece, Turkey or Britain for defense of his country is not bright...
...Store to outfit pioneers who were heading west. Two years later young Wright had made a small fortune in real estate, was worth $200,000. At 20 he owned a warehouse, dock, 7,000 acres along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. He knew nothing about farming but he thought farmers ought to learn more about it. So in 1841 he started The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer...
...economy was stagnating for want of new capital investment. The investment bankers, having no capital to speak of, were taking only seasoned issues they could retail at once. Douglas and Frank figured that the diversified investment trusts, with upwards of $1,000,000,000 in resources, ought to use some of these resources in the job of unfreezing idle money for productive enterprise. When SEC got its investment trust law through Congress last year, this idea became a clause in the act, permitting the industry to form such a pool for risk money...