Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team's victory as a springboard to leap into first place in the race for individual high-scoring honors. He tallied 2 goals and 2 assists and brought his point total for the season to 11, Princeton's Wyer rose to second place with 10 points, while Bill Morrison, of Toronto, is tied for third with Mel Williamson, of Queens, each with 9. McConnell was the league's high scorer in 1938. STANDINGS OF THE TEAMS College Won Lost Pts Toronto 3 0 6 McGill 3 0 6 Queens 3 2 6 Harvard 2 1 4 Princeton...
Whatever he decided, insisted Mr. Ickes last week, let no one think he pictured the office as a springboard to the White House. "It might also.'' he said, "be used as an exit...
Harvard's divers face new problems this year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has made important changes in the five compulsory dives from the three-meter or high board, with the result that four new required dives will have to be learned for the coming season by the Crimson springboard experts...
...fourth is described as the "backward spring, forward dive. This flip-flop is the same as the regular back-jack-knife, but it omits the jack. Fifth dive, the "half-twist backward," is the fourth dive with a half-twist added, the diver entering the water facing the springboard...
Shadow to Shakespeare. Shoemaker to Shaw-all in one season-might be a whole career for most men, but for Welles it is only Springboard to Success. Nor does he want the Mercury to pin all its faith on the classics: he pines to do a real mystery, a real farce, a British pantomime, a fast revue, a Mozart opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well...