 | John Irving Sowers - Boys - 1925 - 208 pages
...alone, however, will never save an individual any more than it will save a nation. To teach the boy how to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a valuable contribution to the wealth of the country. But also to teach the boy at the same time... | |
 | Ray Palmer Teele - Reclamation of land - 1927 - 366 pages
...expression in the popular phrases "Make the desert blossom as the rose," "Make every idle acre work," and "Make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." The economist asks whether we need the products of the acre now idle, whether we can afford the blossoms,... | |
 | W. G. Tittsworth - African American cowboys - 1927 - 248 pages
...seen the corn shuck mule collared, chain harnessed, single donkeys ticklin' the yeller clay back home to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. He took the hint, planted seeds in the dry dirt, gave 'em a drink out of the spring branch, and yer... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture - 1945 - 1234 pages
...work to compound the magic medicine which restored it to health. If It is a noteworthy achievement to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," how great is the achievement of these men who have made thousands of tons of sugar grow where none... | |
 | Agriculture - 1942 - 586 pages
...unoccupied rich land was available. He must now learn, in Newton's words -though he quoted the phrase, "'to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. "" Consequently science, " [the^ w/iat and how to do . . . the concentrated experience of the ages,"... | |
 | Jews - 1918 - 474 pages
...agents traveling all over the country, nor costly branches in numerous cities. This again enabled us to make "two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," for two Olivers can now be bought for the former price of one. Typewriter users have appreciated this... | |
 | Richard H. Pells - United States - 1973 - 452 pages
...from childhood that it is a sort of moral obligation for each of us to rise, to get up in the world," to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," to avoid poverty and accumulate money as an "outward sign of inner merit," Americans were now learning... | |
 | Napoleon Hill - Business & Economics - 2005 - 192 pages
...cactus to shed its thorns and become an edible food. Give me access to the knowledge which enabled you to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. "Napoleon, I desire to acquire from you, by emulation, the marvelous ability you possessed to inspire... | |
 | William Sanders Scarborough - History - 2006 - 557 pages
...encouragement given to labor. This of itself is a work not to be under- rated. If the man who shows how to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor, much more ought one to be called such who shows how to make any vocation command increased... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1887 - 492 pages
...even triples the depth of aerated and nourishing soil. It is drainage, therefore, that will enable one to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, since it gives feeding room for two roots where but one fed of yore. Instead of heeding Horace Greely's... | |
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