Word: podunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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character labels: Austin from Boston, fluke from Dubuque, groan from Bayonne, keeno from Reno, leery from Erie, mute from Butte, noisy from Boise, pester from Chester, skunk from Podunk, trixie from Dixie...
With its selection of the Man of the Year and its story on "Report from the World," it has raised the hope of this Mainstreeter from Podunk to its highest ebb since the era of Wendell Willkie's "One World...
...Colleges estimated that smaller colleges could absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...
...have to . . . ask the doctor or dentist to go to Podunk. He may have to give up an established practice in Brooklyn to do this. The three doctors who left Podunk may say it is a hell of a note to put us in uniform and then turn our practice over to a stranger who will be too well established when we return for us to get back our former patients...
...Assume that three doctors move out of Podunk to accept commissions in the Army and Navy. This will create a dangerous shortage of medical and dental care in Podunk. Assume that in Brooklyn, however, we have an overabundance of doctors and dentists, after the Army and Navy have called up the men they want...