Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Putnam scholastic competition, inaugurated by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, the futility of the plan, as it was executed last year, is obviously suggested; Tardiness and negligence on the part of the University authorities is alleged, but aside from these possible considerations, the foundations of this new scholastic field of competition were none too sound at its inception...
...organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials the goods go through the hands of at least one sales representative. The general field of salesmanship has shown many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than...
...requirements for sales work as I have noted are few in number but considerable in their importance. Above all the salesman being in the field must have a human point of view. No matter what he is selling he will find that the demands on his time and energy are great, and if he is travelling on the road he will find that physical weariness is not an uncommon companion. If, however, a college man undertakes sales work and stays by it, building all the time the human contacts which are so essential to success, financial rewards will be adequate...
...preaches, he prays, he saves, and in the midst of thousands recruited from all levels, he sends forth his message of light. His life reads like fiction, for he has adventured upon every field aside from the platform. Gipsy Smith, "the world's best known evangelist" packs the Boston Garden, packs the Tremont Temple...
...negative orators granted that a limited freedom of speech is desirable in time of peace but that complete liberty in this field would be impracticable in war time and, furthermore, would be inconsistent with the present theory of nationalism...