Word: springboarded
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...mechanical equipment led Kahn to conceive of columns as "hollow stones" in which the clutter could be stored. From there it was only a step to dividing spaces into major, clear areas and subsidiary "servant spaces." By making this distinction, Kahn has revived functionalism once again as a springboard for esthetics...
...town he would always begin in the synagogue if there was one-using it as a springboard rather than as a place to convert many Jews. For the Christian doctrine that the Messiah had been executed as a criminal was, as Paul said, plain foolishness to Greeks but a special stumbling block to Jews. Paul inevitably did better among the Gentiles-until the almost inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned...
...biggest retail and mailorder chain in Britain (2,700 stores, 34,000 door-to-door salesmen). With this readymade sales organization, Magnavox will distribute its own British-made TV sets, radios and phonographs. Says President Frank Freimann: "We're ready to expand. This gives us a real springboard to move fast into the English market...
Above & Beyond. The victory for a sound U.S. economy meant not only a U.S. that could continue to meet its obligations of free-world leadership; it served as a springboard for vast creative forces. With postwar U.S. help the industrial nations of the West had built their economies to the point where they could begin to tear down the trade barriers that are always a sign of weakness. They could start to share with the U.S. in the immense and compelling job of aiding the world's underdeveloped lands. Those lands, with examples of successful free enterprise ranging from West...
Much of the book uses reality merely as a springboard toward fantasy; characters may suddenly levitate or turn into werewolves. Also, there are boggy tracts that sound, and no doubt are meant to sound, like ads for Rosicrucianism ("large increments of love are released that are fermenting in the Fertile Void"). What emerges is an allegory on whatever the reader chooses-the perversity of man, the bright illusion of love, the red-eyed aurochs of war. Dotted throughout the book are moon-mad digressions-a plan to enroll farm boys in the Joy Scouts of America, hike them into Harlem...