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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrug of their shoulders: "Well, Britain and France brought it on themselves. That Treaty of Versailles. . . ." For the first time in many years, that argument is no longer being made. . . . They are saying that if Germany can't beat France and England without raping those little nations, she ought to have the grace to take her licking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1940 | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...sums, it still had another illusion to meet and overcome. Aircraft excepted, about all the Franklin Roosevelt's initial estimates could do was provide what the Army thought it needed before Hitler's mechanized hordes changed the modern definition of war. "I don't think we ought to deceive ourselves that this program goes very far," said the Army's Colonel Harry K. Rutherford. Said the independent but authoritative Army & Navy Journal, ". . . the results will still leave us, a year and a half hence, far behind the fighting forces of the European nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Great Illusion | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...presented his big idea: a merging of all Catholic diocesan weeklies into one big national Sunday newspaper, complete with foreign correspondents, big wire services, comics, society and sports pages-''in short, a national newspaper THEODORE MACMANUS Out of many weeklies, one Sunday? edited as Catholic newspapers ought to be edited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MacManus' Scheme | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...their prototypes of 1916. But if the Board itself were to take up where it left off, its methods might not be so gentle. To Baruch, 1918 had made the necessity for wage-fixing "very evident." He was also "led to the thought that, in a similar emergency, there ought to be not alone a mobilization of man power, but of things and of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Twenty-three Years Afterward | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

John F. Kennedy '40, chairman of the Red Cross undergraduate committee, said, "We hope that students will continue to contribute this week and next, even if it is just loose change. If each member of the College could give at least 50 cents, we ought to be able to reach our goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross, Wilhelmina Drives Start Slowly | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

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