It is one thing to plan and irrigate a desert area and quite a different thing successfully to populate the irrigated land.
"A Stake in the Land"
Peter Alexander Speek
His parents abandoned him as a ne'er-do-well, and, setting him up as a rancher in a small way, had sent him out west, another victim of that over-indulgence which helps to populate the fringes of civilization.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum
Women must supply the demand for soldiers and workers and at the same time a surplus big enough to populate the globe.
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur