Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would do the most good, at the annual meeting of the archconservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association in Philadelphia. Ostensibly, Big Jim's theme was inflation. The best cure for it, he told the PMAsters, is a price rollback. No matter how unpleasant this medicine might be, "industry ought to set the example by taking the first dose." After all, said Big Jim, with record earnings industry can well afford the risk...
...Harvard Committee for Wallace would like to clarify its position on the Marshall Plan. We feel that the "Marshall Plan" which has achieved a wide acceptance by honest liberals suffering from a "Lesser of two evils" psychology, ought really to be recognized to be made up of two quite different things. There is the Marshall Proposal of the Harvard speech of June, 1947; and there is the European Recovery Plan as formulated at present...
...Olds dismissed price-wage increases as a major cause of inflation. The real root of the disease, he said, was expansion of bank credit, and the cure was in deflating it. His point had merit, but his attitude, like almost every businessman's, was that the other fellow ought to have more self-control...
...Quisenbery assures me that this is not what the AVC had in mind, but in order to avoid any possible confusion in the minds if your readers I feel I ought to make the procedure absolutely clear...
...same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call it "Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call it "Sex Hygiene," as is the usual custom, the fact should be faced that a course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will suggest, that most local students would stand little to learn from such a course; but it is more likely that enough undergraduates to fill at least a medium-sized classroom do not feel their knowledge...