Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every child in America ought to feel vividly the suffering and loneliness experienced by the children who are victims of a racial and religious intolerance...
...Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
...prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...
...Yale cub eight opened its season by defeating the Kant boat over the mile course and certainly ought to give Abbot's crew, victors over M. I. T., a good fight...
Long has the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee considered the repeal of a law which commands that there must always be competition in the declining U. S. telegraph industry. Last January it got the opinion of the Federal Communications Commission: that Western Union and Postal Telegraph ought to merge, that there is not enough business to support both, especially Postal. The Senate did nothing...