Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumored that a few Harvard men had a lot to do with the passage of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Now that they have succeeded in their aims, the advice of another Harvard man ought to be considered in administering...
...went-Oak Harbor, Sandusky, Elyria, plowing the ground, sometimes stony, sometimes soft. Everywhere he had been phrasemaking, rather than speechmaking: "When you have unemployment you have cut the jugular vein of America. . . . People say we ought not to change horses in the middle of the stream...
...Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance; carrot-thatched, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, roving war correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, who came home last winter long enough to deliver 88 lectures telling people that the odds favored a German victory and the U. S. ought to help the Allies...
...Bill Lee, late managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and radio Writer-Producer-Director Blair Walliser. Originally Quill was known as The Crimson Wizard, and in the beginning neither Lee nor Walliser was certain whether their man was a menace or a hero. Last fall it was decided he ought to be a stanch American, and ever since then Walliser has held him on the patriotic line...
...ought to know! The Hoosier Hammer, who stands an even six feet and displays the perfect build of a Greek statue when stripped of his football paraphernalia, carried the ball officially on 21 of the Maize and Blue plays. He gained a total of 123 yards, averaging 5.85 yards every time he carried the oval...