Word: spring-board
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Fowler's breaststroke events are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Mahoney will compete in the one-metre springboard diving today and the three-metre spring-board on Saturday...
...taking patients for walks, organizing parties and baseball games, and taking groups on trips and picnics. The hospital does not have a staff large enough to take patients outdoors on these activities, and so depends on Summer School volunteers to "create a normal environment and activity program," frequently "a spring-board to a cure," William F. McLaughlin, Superintendent of the Hospital, claims...
...patients. And even if we did, we still don't know the real answer to curing the patients. But if you create a normal environment and activity program--as the volunteers do--the patients respond. It is the beginning of getting their trust again, and often it is a spring-board to a cure...
...think it was a case where the dirty linen could only be cleaned by being washed in public; and I think the CRIMSON, instead of chiding the alumni group, should have given them all possible support. But, even more important, the issue should have been made a spring-board for a thorough airing of a system of university government which would tolerate the underpaying of a group of its most defenseless employees. The case should have been treated as a symptom of a condition, and the condition should have been carefully investigated...
Dispateches from Allied field headquarters said the battle for the spring-board to Europe had reached the "critical stage...