Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps you cannot expect to join our officers...
...Austin, Minn., Miss Reika Schwanke turned up as the only woman who had succeeded in registering for the draft. Registrant Schwanke explained that she misunderstood a radio broadcast, went to her local registration place and persuaded a woman registrar to sign her up. Said Reika Schwanke: "There ought to be some place for a woman in the Army...
...unfavorable trade balance. This has forced her to ship $28,400,000 of her $403,000,000 gold reserve to the U. S. since September, in order to maintain her cash balances. Argentina's politicos have their own idea of what kind of Good Neighbor the U. S. ought...
Their idea: the U. S. ought to drop its farm tariffs, import as much grain and meatstuffs as Argentina has to sell, come what may in Kansas, Iowa and Texas...
...past 25 years he has received hundreds of letters from twins, "supertwins," parents of twins, and women who want them. They ask him all sorts of questions, "some sensible, some rather silly." Last fortnight Professor Newman published a book on Multiple Human Births (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50) which ought to get him ahead of the questions for the next few years...