Word: ruralization
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Gradually Washington came to recognize that the Secretary of Agriculture was something more than a rural curiosity. He was a man of ideas which he liked to ponder long and deeply. At first a number of braintrusters were enrolled among his aides -Rex Tugwell and Jerome Frank among them. But their idealistic social dreaming was not in the same key as Henry Wallace's slow digestion of ideas...
Chief obstacle to the well-being of these seven counties, as of the rural U. S. generally, was poor schools-dark, dirty, manned by ill-prepared teachers whose time was spread over so many classes that some pupils had only two weeks of actual instruction in a year...
...prepared to show the rest of rural America how it is done, the Foundation offers to pay the expenses of physicians, engineers and teachers to come to Michigan to study the remarkable spectacle of 220,000 people pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps...
...most moving of Coffin's verses deals with an old rural custom of marking children's heights upon the wall, a custom which he fashions into an appealing metaphor called "The Family Stairs." He draws heavily upon the emotion conveyed by understatement for an effect of quiet charm. Again in "The Race" and "When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute...
...population lived in rural arras; in 1850, 83% ; in 1900 60% ; at the last census...