| 1927 - 548 pages
...should be taught in the schools. Much time and effort is given to teach pupils how to secure money, how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but little time is given to teaching them how to save the money they have acquired. "The statistics... | |
| James Dundas White - 1924 - 236 pages
...comparatively little to those who are actually engaged in production. If Nature were so bountiful as to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, and to double the return to every effort, the resulting benefits could still be realised only through... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1924 - 1110 pages
...the experimental stations. Now, we have been during all these years urging increased production — to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Now, according to this commission it has come 'time to pull up one of those blades of grass. Mr. TABER.... | |
| Wilbur Olin Hedrick - 1924 - 368 pages
...dwellers have had a full share of this benefit. The constant aim of science, applied to farming, has been "to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," and the greater output of food thus gained has made the supply greater for city people. The system... | |
| 1918 - 916 pages
...how two little Continental nations, by the adoption of new and intelligent ideas, were able actually to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. With this information before it Mr. Plunkett's "Recess Committee" met, and in due time issued a report... | |
| Edgar Erastus Clark - 1906 - 1072 pages
...they had no incentive to own or develop machinery, to plant and sow and reap, to build and produce, to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Their condition and mode of life offered no reward for inventive genius, no reward for energy or talent,... | |
| 1955 - 758 pages
...course, the stronger ones. There is joy in a job well done. I have heard the fellows try to tell farmers how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Now my friends, I am, though, seriously, greatly interested in the future of agriculture and in the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Appropriations - 1957 - 1614 pages
...These are the programs that develon. promote and distribute the techniques by which funnel's learn to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. I am not saying that these research and extensive activities are wrong national policy nor am I urging... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 742 pages
...so nutritious and diversified a diet. But while we take justifiable pride in our tremendous capacity to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, we struggle for ways to give rural people who produce the food the same share of American prosperity... | |
| Boyd Henry Bode - 1927 - 376 pages
...to place, cables carry our messages, and adding machines look after our bookkeeping. We have learned how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, or even where none grew at all; and we have made ourselves at home on the globe from the arctic regions... | |
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