Word: podunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some podunk college in Texas with anendowment, which I can assure you is smaller thanthat of Harvard, managed to scrape together moremoney than we could," Stewart said...
...hardest blow is talking with friends who go to the lesser Ivies in Connecticut and New Jersey. It's easy to pretend you don't care about the Harvard-Yale rivalry when you indisputably attend the best college in the United States. But when some podunk, half-rate magazine calling itself a news provider casts doubt upon that status--as much as you know in your heart of hearts that nothing could possibly be further from the truth--the rivalry suddenly becomes more important...
...first heard of Drew Hansen when I was a sophomore in high school. I was a mere novice debater in the podunk town of Puyallup, Wash., but Drew was a big-city whiz tearing up the local championship debate circuit from up north. Everyone knew who Drew was -- the fastest mouth in the Northwest...
...their accomplishments. At the Same time, a Harvard education is no guarantee of success. While it's true that a lot more of them are not. Even the best possible education is only a precursor to all that follows; just because one person attends Harvard and another attends Podunk U. doesn't mean that the former will necessarily contribute more to society than the latter...
...puffed-up self-importance, that recently dethroned king of Podunk High had a light inside of him, which encouraged him to be bold, to think big, to take chances...