Word: podunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selling Podunk. President Judson of Community has 20 traveling salesmen. They earn their pay mostly in towns of 15,000 to 500,000. In Podunk, for instance, which has never heard any music better than the high-school band, a salesman calls on the local bigwiggery and the clubwomen, cajoles them into a week's fund-raising campaign to put Podunk on the musical map. When Podunk's committee has the money in the bank, the salesman checks over Columbia's list of appropriately-priced artists. For these, Podunkians pay list prices. But Judson's artists...
...whole. If the second and third stringers are always on the ball, and under Stahley there is a little doubt about that, the A team men are kept looking carefully after their laurels, else they wake up one day and find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher, is a guard called Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played before. Were...