 | James Miller Guinn - California - 1915 - 498 pages
...city's exchequer, which was chronically in a state of collapse, would expand and become plethoric. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is the secret of agricultural wealth. The olden-time city fathers well knew that neither the one blade... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1914 - 658 pages
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1914 - 658 pages
...that have affected governmental development. The underlying effort if all industry and commerce is to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," or at least to see that "a new dollar is returned for the dollar that is expended." The political government... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1915-1918 : Whitman) - New York (State) - 1916 - 1070 pages
...increased by many millions. Every dollar devoted by the State to agriculture is an investment, not a gift. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is plain business. The State of New York is bringing to agriculture all that the scientist has discovered... | |
 | Charles Henry Morrill - Frontier and pioneer life - 1918 - 254 pages
...than one hundred thousand acres. To improve and develop new wild sections of the West, and to endeavor to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," was always an interesting and alluring work to me. The hardships of frontier life were tempered by... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1919 - 952 pages
...increased by many millions. Every dollar devoted by the State to agriculture is an investment, not a gift. To make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is plain business. The State of New York is bringing to agriculture all that the scientist has discovered... | |
 | David Snedden - Education - 1921 - 342 pages
...sought to discover a new, or to improve an old, tool ; to add new knowledge to the social inheritance; to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before ; to heal the sick ; to reform the delinquent; to promote justice; or to educate the young. It can... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall - Psychologists - 1923 - 668 pages
...out their pens to the highest bidder. It has been truly said that the farmer wishes to know how he is to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. Geology and Chemistry are ready to gratify that desire. The knowledge of these is indispensable to... | |
 | Samuel Insull - Public utilities - 1924 - 496 pages
...properties under my direction. I have spent my life in trying, so far as my business is concerned, to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. And when I se e an effort made, as in this state, to roll back the wheels of progress just to pander... | |
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