Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idaho's Borah and other Senate foes of the President's Plan were as furious at his ambassadorial intrusion into 1937's hottest political fight as were Nazis when Ambassador Dodd. in one of his first Berlin speeches, used the careers of the Caesars as his springboard for a two-footed jump on dictatorships...
...help to the students, and the plant and equipment with which the Department labors ranks as among the finest laboratory facilities in the Country. And the field is valuable to the undergraduate not merely because it is an interesting subject in itself, but also because it supplies an excellent springboard into the realm of medicine...
...revival of Fine Arts 1b as a whole year's effort would be of help not only to those who use the course as a springboard into the field, but also to the dabblers from other departments who wish to get a full view of art since the Middle Ages, especially with reference to the literatures and sciences that have followed since those times. Although the course as delivered by Professor Opdyke presents an enormous amount of material in a minimum of time, it tends to become something of a glorified Baedeker, cramming masses of facts down the heads...
...filled with the problems of perversion and suffering, literary experiment and revolution, frustration and release. But the most comprehensive discontent is expressed in a lengthy article by Arthur Rosenbloom, "Hara-kiri in the Ivory Tower". Mr. Rosenbloom uses the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences as his springboard, and from it launches into a vehement stream of reflections on the plight of the modern academic intellectual. Exposing with more vigor than originality the impotence of idealistic reformers, he concludes "If the intellectuals are faced with the alternative of continuing their search for the truth or setting the world free...
...before any plan can be put to work, a basic reform is needed in the election to House committees. Today, like independent states, the Houses choose their representatives by whatever system happens to appeal to them. But if the House committees are to be a springboard for jumping into the main Council, home rule will have to give in, and a uniform and standardized system for handling the franchise substituted instead...