Word: oughtness
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...father said, "Go to the best lawyer," so I walked around in contemplation of the office, and at last went to the man who has the best room in Sears Block. That was the handsomest building, by long odds, and, thought I, the men who can afford it ought to be the best...
...breakfast at all. This seems to us to be a proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question so important as this ought to have been decided by ballot. The assertion that the majority were not competent to vote, as some allege, is rank nonsense: every man's opinion is sound when the stomach is concerned. We say, then, that the compromise in itself is a satisfactory one; but that the action...
...Mock programmes are still in vogue, and "judging from the previous efforts of '79, this year they ought to be as disgusting as any ever presented...
...utterly wasted by the complete failure of those who have followed; and a good deal of training and practice is needed to remedy this fault. Slow and ill-judged base-running has in a few instances resulted in serious loss. Base-running is a feature wherein our men ought to excel, since they have the brain to judge and the swiftness to execute. But there is much to praise and little to criticise in the present record of the Nine. The two games in Boston during the recess were very finely played. The last was one of the most interesting...
...this; and as Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, I see, has been lecturing on George Eliot before the Boston University, I hope that the authorities at your Cambridge seat of learning may be waking up to this great want of the time. The lecture-room of the new professor ought to be in the Zoological Museum for convenient reference in a general way to matters pertaining to the Stone Age and various geological strata, which might throw valuable light on George Eliot's genius. A chemical laboratory adjoining the lecture-room would also be necessary, in-order to assist the scientific...