 | Fullerton Leonard Waldo - Housing - 1917 - 148 pages
...the country, the world in the age to come by assuring the health and happiness of the unborn. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, then what is he who tears down a ramshackle tenement and rears in its place such a house as the Casa... | |
 | Ignatius Daniel O'Donnell - Agriculture - 1918 - 148 pages
...a way that gladdens the hearts of the concoctors of commercial fertilizers. It is true that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor and the ambition to increase the rate of production on our farms is a commendable... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on education and labor - 1919 - 92 pages
...again divert? We all remember when in. our boyhood we found this old motto in our copy books : " He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor to his race." We all remember that statement, and it is a splendid old phrase ; but we have n new one... | |
 | 1919 - 270 pages
...in the movement for bettering conditions on the farm. The Easton (Pennsylvania) Sentinel: If a man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of the race, Henry Wallace was more than a benefactor, for his life work was to make not two, but four... | |
 | John St. George Joyce - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1919 - 660 pages
...than average credit. One of these men — men who are just as much the benefactors of their race as he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before — is Patricious McManus, the subject of this sketch. For over half a century Mr. McManus has been engaged... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie, John Charles Van Dyke - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 482 pages
...feeling that if he who GEORGE LAUDER in'- r.:;: \ iz Pi:P!.!C LI^Ai: V. ».::.. B «.%•» .. ,ra L makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor and lays the race under obligation, those who produce superior coke from material... | |
 | Richard Laban Adams - Agriculture - 1921 - 702 pages
...affects farm managers, and to suggest the need of additional individual study. The old adage that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor" gives way under the application of business principles to farming to the idea that... | |
 | Arthur Herbert Savory - Aldington (Worcestershire) - 1921 - 328 pages
...family allotment; her loaves were some of the best and the sweetest bread I have ever tasted. " The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before " is said to be a national benefactor, and, I suppose, the same adage applies a fortiori to wheat, but I... | |
 | S. V. Bracher - Great Britain - 1923 - 248 pages
...explosions, and has experimented successfully in multiple wheat-growing. If, as the wise have said, the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his race, what shall we say of " Willie " Wright, who has produced 1,300 grains of wheat from a... | |
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He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two. 
