Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observes Columbia's Law Dean Young B. Smith, eyeing the G.I. Bill of Rights uneasily: "A university is under the obligation to give general education to as many as possible, but the professional schools ought not to train more than the profession can absorb. [A glut of lawyers] creates unemployment and frustrated desires. . . . It would be mistaken patriotism to train too many. . . . A disappointed lawyer is just smart enough to make trouble for everybody. He is likely to become a sourbelly and a revolutionary...
...between the public which knows what it wants to read and the critics who know what it ought to want to read is as old as literature. I can remember that when I was a boy it never occurred to anybody that Mark Twain might be a great writer, and the suggestion would have brought laughter. Later on, I saw the same attitude taken toward Jack London; but the public went on reading Huckleberry Finn and The Call of the Wild, and it still does...
...temperaments would make the progress of such a venture anything but serene. If certain rules of the road are accepted, however, clashes of opinion can be channeled into the magazine, where they would be most rewardingly constructive. If democratic procedures work for 130,000,000 variously opinionated souls, they ought to work...
...half of dried peas and five ounces of sugar. Many Viennese know that they would not be eating at all this month if it had not been for Clark's efforts, but, as traditional Raunzer (gripers), they are now telling each other that the grammar rules on "little" ought to be amended to "little, less, least, UNRRA...
...country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting Tom Horn material for 20 or 30 years. A number of other writers, including Struthers Burt and Gene Fowler, have had their say about Tom. Last of the Bad Men ought to be the last word...