Word: plugger
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...plugger unseen and a bachelor...
Whatever the embattled farmers may think, the onetime Professor of Agronomy who came from Kansas to be Secretary of Agriculture is no drone. His name is William M. Jardine and his mind works like Herbert Hoover's. Both of them are "pluggers." A man must be a "plugger" who can produce a 120-page annual report on agriculture covering the entire field from "Swine Sanitation" to the "Nutritive Value of Wheat Bran...
...violinist, told him he would never be a musician. When he was 15, he tried to write a song. It began decently in F, but ran off into G, where it hid behind the black keys, twiddling its fingers at Gershwin. Discouraged, he went to work as a song-plugger for a music publisher...
...went to work as a song-plugger for a music publisher. All day he played for vaudeville acts, tintinnabulated most of the night in cafes, earned $15 a week...
...University has made the entrance examinations so difficult and narrow that it is chiefly the 'book-worm' or 'plugger" type of student that can get into the College...