Word: springboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as Adolf Hitler retains even a small foothold in Crimea, he has a perfect springboard for his promised second Russian offensive in the spring: a jump from the south smack into the rich oilfields of Baku...
...provocation: A New Deal youngster, 36-year-old Ganson Purcell, had got the White House green light to become SEC's sixth chairman in seven years. He would succeed New Dealer Edward Clayton Eicher, ex-Iowa Congressman who jumped from the SEC springboard* to Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia...
...stream; expansion of the R.O.T.C.; further integration of the graduate schools with the college; the survey of manpower, before noted; using the war to jolt hoary, over-conservative doctrines out of academic institutions. Every thinking individual at Harvard, agreeing or disagreeing, can use President Conant's words as a springboard for answering the vital question of how to ensure that education shall be both "relevant and enduring...
...Among themselves, Chinese had learned to discount their press ta hua-big talk. They did not realize that Americans, unused to Chinese newspaper ways, were accepting Chungking statements at face value, that editorialists were using every sliver of American bright news from the dark Orient as an editorial springboard...
...good things that all concerned can take a bow for fashioning one of the most singular and comic comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. It molds farce and fantasy into a story that is not only witty but wise. A directorial triumph for Alexander Hall, it is a springboard for two practically perfect performances by Actors Montgomery and Gleason...