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Word: ought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could, in short, bring about real unification-based on what each service can do best, not on what it thinks it ought or would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Slow Progress | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...just a ten-minute talk at a Rutgers convocation, but long enough for the speaker, Philosopher Houston Peterson, to peddle a provocative thought. Why didn't everyone at Rutgers read one good book a year-the same good book? Added Peterson: "On a university campus, we ought to have more to talk about than football, girls and the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Book That Binds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...ought to be pretty good experts. How can guys sitting in the press box know who hits the hardest? You have to feel the jolts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Wins Spot on Players' All-American | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...exams could be filed alphabetically at the reading desk. And since the exams do not come on uniform-sized paper, it would be convenient to paste the exams on cardboard sheets. Anyone who wanted to look at an exam could sign for it. The bound copies of finals ought to be kept here too, with duplicates in reserve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Exams | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...because Widener was never insistent. It goes back to the more basic reason, that keeping track of exams was never taken as a serious thing in the library. Whether old exams should be available at all is open to question. But since the library is doing this service, it ought to do it more efficiently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Exams | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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