Over-fulfilled Expectations: A Life and an Era in Rural AmericaIowa State University Press, 1991 - 300 Seiten During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the third person, Breimyer recounts how he and his fellows were encouraged to form high expectations for themselves, and how they fulfilled them. |
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... began . It began with Freshman Week , marked by getting lodging , a job , and the Ohio State fever . In those years universities acknowledged a sheltering responsibility toward their female 73 CHAPTER 5 College and Depression Years,
... began . It began with Freshman Week , marked by getting lodging , a job , and the Ohio State fever . In those years universities acknowledged a sheltering responsibility toward their female 73 CHAPTER 5 College and Depression Years,
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... began his college career . Moreover , although his father made no direct contribution to his son's education , he implicitly helped a little . For two or three years he continued to milk the cow that Harold had raised from a 4 - H calf ...
... began his college career . Moreover , although his father made no direct contribution to his son's education , he implicitly helped a little . For two or three years he continued to milk the cow that Harold had raised from a 4 - H calf ...
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... began to move grain around the globe in increasing volume . Country after country entered the market to fill its bins . Episodes of dry weather limited production , even as economic prosperity added to de- mand . The export boom of the ...
... began to move grain around the globe in increasing volume . Country after country entered the market to fill its bins . Episodes of dry weather limited production , even as economic prosperity added to de- mand . The export boom of the ...
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Prelude | 3 |
A Vignette | 7 |
Hometown in the 1920s | 13 |
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