Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumor," appearing in April, Professor Allport has no illusions about the limitations of his subject: "None of the really important problems in Psychology has ever been solved. Where did mind come from? Where is it going, if anywhere, after we die? How is it related to the body? What ought men to do with their minds while they have them?" Muensterberg would be glad to know that at least one of his pupils has never lost his capacity for wonderment...
...graceful top. Most other recent seismic unrest (earthquakes and volcanoes) has also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...good friend of mine, but in this business he's a mere child." As for Morgan, Stanley, which Bob Young persists in calling the Morgan crowd, although they have no direct connection with the bank, he snorted:'"If they start another fight they ought to have their heads examined. If I can't get along with these fellows this time, I'll make a twentieth-rate bank out of the Morgan bank...
...hand, almost anyone ought to be able to find his way around Harvard Square. Cambridge, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, as the saying goes, and if cows could do it, you probably don't need...
...amateur archeologists rummage for everything from Piltdown Man to Saxon arrowheads, two Yorkshire brothers struck pay mud in the River Humber. Since boyhood, Ted and William Wright had scoured the country near Hull, looking for likely sites. Best bet, they decided, was a mud bank in the Humber; it ought to be full of interesting stuff washed down the river since ancient days...