Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warship Admiral Graffs Bey ought to have fought till the end. If one of us is attacked he must fight till he is killed. It is disgraceful to run away or to kill oneself. Graffs Bey is a coward. Wallah! How do warships fight? Do they knock down one another or simply jump over one another...
...read before a class of Military Science 1 students described an encounter between Socialist strikers and constabulary on a sugar plantation in Manila. The Instructor's comment was: "When the employer is good enough to furnish some food and a hut and some clothes for the poor workers, they ought to be happy, but then these Socialist agitators come in and try to make them feel discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal taxes consumed most of the $200,000 bonus given to A.T. & T. president Gifford. At another meeting...
...Tech eight, on the other hand, is lighter but has had more practice, and, as they look on the river, ought to provide plenty of opposition for the Yardling crew. Harvey Love is confident that the boat will go well once the boys get the proper mileage and water conditions, but up to now the pent up strength has been as much of a hindrance as an asset. "I am pleased with the results of the time trial Tuesday when the first beat the second by a good three lengths and was going better than it had for a week...
With Jerry Callanan permanently on the sidelines with an injury, Bob Ax-tell has been moved to catcher from the outfield and in several weeks ought to become accustomed to his new berth...
...chairman, aristocratic, silver-mustached H. Hobart Porter, suggested selling $5,000,000 of new West Penn bonds, $2,500,000 of preferred stock. SEC told him that since West Penn's common stock amounted to only 22.9% of its $121,383,501 of capital and surplus he ought to freshen the kitty. Instead of fighting or calling it all off, Water Works and SEC traded, compromised. The $4,000,00 of new stock raises the common-stock share of West Penn's capital to 24.6%, gives the public a 5.5% minority interest in Water Works' biggest baby...