Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking this as its springboard, the London weekly News-Review cooked up a two-page rehearsal of Kent's conduct over recent years, served it up hot on all British newsstands for sixpence...
Most outstanding was Dick Degener, graduate of the University of Michigan in 1935, intercollegiate high diving champion for three years, and Olympic springboard diving champion, crowned in Berlin in 1936: He has since turned professional, as have all the others who are appearing with him in the aquatic show at the Arena...
...succeed the defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost the U. S. President to a place of direct influence in world politics, through the medium of belligerent boycott. Such a hope may well have inspired Franklin Roosevelt's eagerness to dash to Buenos Aires at a time when there were plenty of problems waiting...
...debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer. He put his father's executor, H. Paul Grimm, in as president. Pacific Western was Oilman Getty's springboard to big Tide Water. Pacific Western dipped into surplus funds, bought 360,000 shares of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. common stock at depression prices while Mr. Getty and other Getty interests acquired 500,000 other shares. Tide Water directors quickly saw to it that Oilmen Getty and Grimm were elected...
Nursing a shoulder fractured two months ago in a springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise...