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Example sentences for "good roads"

  • With the advent of the small farm the "good roads" problem is being solved.

  • No wonder people are afraid of good roads, if having them would entail the advent of motorists of this sort.

  • The most conspicuous fact at the time of publication of this work in this section as in the country at large is the movement in the direction of good roads as the logical sequence of the development of automobiles.

  • Investigate and report on: The amount of time saved in a year by a farmer in your locality because of good roads; or lost because of unimproved roads.

  • It is reported that in one county of Oklahoma the pupils of forty different school districts have built more than forty miles of good roads, of course working under supervision.

  • Among the Conservation problems to be taken up next in Oregon are the protection of fisheries, good roads, improvement in technical methods in irrigation and dry-land farming, topographic surveys, and inventories of State resources.

  • Office of Good Roads; National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union; and League of American Wheelmen.

  • Local jealousies, rivalry and factions, and the quarrels of various road authorities interfere everywhere with good roads.

  • Good Roads, the Index of Civilization When John Frederick Oberlin began his remarkable work of community building in the stagnant villages of the Vosges Mountains, his very first move was to build a road.

  • One of the widespread signs of rural progress is the recent attention given to good roads.

  • This service ameliorates the isolation of farm life, conduces to good roads, and quickens and extends the dissemination of general information.

  • A system of good roads, education, and general development is in progress.

  • Take the benefits you now derive from rural free delivery of mail-- the happiness and home comforts it has brought; nothing contributes so much to its efficiency and regularity as good roads.

  • XX GOOD ROADS As the Fourth of July approached, John White, the banker, and Joe Williams, proprietor of Brookside Farm, held a number of conferences.

  • We are fortunate to have with us Mr. Barth, of the Portland Cement Association, whom I have asked to speak to you briefly on the advantages of good roads.

  • GOOD ROADS The importance and benefit of good roads is more and more coming to be appreciated.

  • At this time, George, neither tongue nor pen, may attempt to describe the marvelous results which will follow the introduction of an era of good roads.

  • The importance of good roads as a source of wealth, and a mark of civilization, is just beginning to be understood by agricultural people, and by rural populations generally.

  • Then, these villages, which have made such a system possible, may collectively claim the proud distinction, of being known as the Nation's Committee on Good Roads.

  • Therefore I have had to smother my zeal, hold my tongue, and wait for the consolidated schoolhouse until Missouri wakes to the necessity of good roads.

  • Good roads to these cities would give them a score of advantages where now they have but this one.

  • It is the question of good roads as they affect the social and moral life of our rural communities.

  • Unfortunately, at this time, we had little or no mountain artillery up forward, while the wheeled guns were often badly handicapped for want of good roads.

  • But south of the Gaza-Beersheba line there were no good roads, "and no reliance could therefore be placed on the use of motor transport.

  • The advanced enemy bases at Nablus and Tul Keram were served also by good roads.

  • The automobilist appreciates the development of this accessory next to good roads themselves, and if he stops to think a minute he will see that the old Romans were the inventors of many things which he fondly thinks are modern.

  • Every farmer should be interested in good roads, for his problem is quite as much to get his products to market as to raise them.

  • He studied the wants of the farmer, knew the value of good roads, of fertilizers and drainage, and would argue long and vigorously as to the saving in plowing with three horses instead of two, or on the use of mules versus horses.

  • Good roads to market and neighbors increase the price of farm produce, and bring people into business relations and good fellowship, and thereby enhance in value every homestead situated in their neighborhood.

  • On the other hand, good roads have a tendency to make the country a desirable dwelling-place, and a town which is noted for its good roads becomes the abode of people of taste, wealth, and intelligence.

  • In Italy alone it is estimated that they had about fourteen thousand miles of good roads.

  • America is far behind some of the European countries in art galleries, good roads, docks, and splendid cathedrals, but there are features of the United States which neither Europe nor other divisions of the world can equal.

  • Parks, good roads, monuments, and shade trees are in evidence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good blood; good cause; good cheere; good deeds; good eating; good engineer; good fellows; good garden; good girl; good graces; good humour; good hunting; good illustration; good looks; good lords; good omen; good opinion; good parte; good profit; good roads; good seed; good stuff; good system; good telescope; good tone; good yeoman