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" It is good to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. "
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Page 272
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The Magnate Or the People, Or, Lowest Instead of Highest Railroad Rates in ...

John Martin Johnson - 1913 - 328 pages
...company and incorporate to build a railroad, to be known as the A. & BRR Co. to "develop the country" and to "make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." A given amount of capital stock is authorized, and enough is paid in to print the stock certificates....
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The Magnate Or the People: Or, Lowest Instead of Highest Railroad Rates in ...

John Martin Johnson - 1913 - 326 pages
...asks only for a trifle of eight or nine billions more to enable him to again "develop the country" and to "make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," and also, incidentally, to make two, three or four stock certificates and any number of bonds grow...
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Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Volume 44

Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1914 - 164 pages
...they had almost one hundred dollars to divide between them. It has been said that "it is a great thing to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before". What then shall be said of the boys' and girls who take a vacant city lot, and make corn and cucumbers...
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Repeal of Section Three of the Daylight Saving Act, Volumes 1-3

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1919 - 174 pages
...Congress to appropriate for education, for experimentation, or most anything that would show the farmers how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, we have no trouble in getting all we want in those directions. As a general proposition the farm people...
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Journal, Volume 3

International Garden Club - 1919 - 696 pages
...past few years, has, in many ways taught us some valuable lessons. After all it was not so difficult to make two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before. This valuable experience we have gained will not be forgotten, and the ultimate result will be greater...
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Law and the Family

Robert Grant - 1919 - 282 pages
...but far [20] from flattering to her intelligence if inherent difficulties be the test. The ability to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before approximates genius in the constructive type of modern financier, but that demanded of the successful...
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Religion and Business

Roger Ward Babson - 1920 - 244 pages
...would give His greatest rewards to the scientist, the inventor, the teacher, and those who are trying to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. These are the men who are truly seeking to learn God's will and, as they practise it and teach it to...
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Agricultural Economics

James Ernest Boyle - 1921 - 464 pages
...the South were taught how to increase the production of cotton, upon the theory that it is a blessing to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. But the report of the Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange states that while the cotton crop...
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Piney Woods and Its Story

Laurence Clifton Jones - 1922 - 200 pages
...vineyard, to teach that Christianity is to be used seven days in the week, to show those whom we serve how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, and, above all, to realize and practice Noblesse Oblige so that those who receive the blessings will...
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Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier: A Memorial Volume of Selections from ...

Reginald Bateman - 1922 - 172 pages
...are both things that will not allow themselves to be neglected, and it is undoubtedly a good thing to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. But why should a man be afraid to devote his time to making an appreciation of Greek tragedy grow where...
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