Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Springboard. If ever critics by dozens are found foully murdered in their beds the police will logically detain Sidney Blackmer as the first suspect. Mr. Blackmer, who has played some parts excellently, is subject to an almost annual avalanche of freezing abuse. This year, he deserves it. He is employed as a devastating lover. He marries the girl. He continues devastation, elsewhere. She sues for divorce. He repents. She repents. Curtain...
...Brother of Architect Irving Kane Pond, able turner of head and handsprings at the age of 70, with and without springboard (TIME, May16...
...Springboard...
...turned several forward somersaults from the mat and not one from the springboard. I did somersaults backward from the springboard and from the mat. I do not know where your reporter got this information...
TIME inferred that Mr. Pond had done his somersaults from a springboard because of the photograph shown above-which was widely circulated by Pacific & Atlantic news photo service the day after Mr. Pond (aged 70) performed his difficult feat. For Mr. Pond to have turned aerial somersaults from a springboard is remarkable. For him to have turned them from the mat is all the more remarkable. TIME regrets that it unconsciously belittled Mr. Pond's feat, joins now in loud applause...