Word: springboarded
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Without this sense of contingency, "there isn't any springboard for theistic metaphysics * ...After all, how would one expect [traditional metaphysics] to soften up a monolithic materialist like H. G. Wells, or an anti-humanist like Picasso, or a happy naturalist like British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle...
...Springboard. Wilson had been moved to G.E.'s great plant at Bridgeport, Conn., a change which gave him the luxuries of which he had dreamed: a house with a lawn and trees, golf, a Peerless automobile ''built like a locomotive." At Bridgeport, too, he landed on the springboard which was to propel him to the final dizzy pinnacle of the G.E. hierarchy. President Swope-in one of the sweeping changes of policy which have always been one of the keys to American productivity -decided to take the services of electricity to the people...
...most improved department this year is the dive. Pete Dillingham and Frank Manheim have been one-two so far. The sophomore who gave up football to concentrate on the springboard has received 119.73 and 112.9 points in his first varsity tries...
...four musical numbers without labored cues or excuses, relies on bouncy tunes and the simple showmanship of Durante and O'Connor instead of costly production routines. The plot is nonsense, and The Milkman's four scripters have tried to-use it wherever possible as a springboard for visual comedy in the silent-movie tradition. Unfortunately, the effort too often is no more inventive than the second-rate dialogue that overburdens Comedian Durante. The picture brightens considerably whenever the sight gags pay off, e.g., Durante cooking the breakfast eggs, toast and coffee on an electric blanket...
...send strong air forces to protect Formosa, the Communists will grab it eventually and use it as a springboard to tie up with the Huks in the Philippines...