Word: dooryard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a 300-mile radius of the new bridge, a comfortable day's drive, live 35,000,000 people, a fourth of the U. S. population, a third of Canada's. To many of these the link meant an international short cut to a neighbor's dooryard; to others, weekends in the bass and muskellunge waters, easier access to a prime vacation land. But to a "whimsical few the route had still another charm. Nearer the U. S. than ever were Ontario's Dionne quintuplets...
...American scheme of education at a moment when it was threatened with absorption into the professional schools or with dissolution into a junior college or a vocational hodge-podge. The work of both men examplifies the little-understood principle that if you do well the work in your own dooryard you have done it well for all dooryards...