Word: springboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please understand that this is only one straw in the gridiron typhoon now howling around the Union rotunda. Local presses have used it as a springboard to boom Harman as a leading candidate to succeed Dick Harlow on Soldiers field come spring practice some six weeks hence. Everyone recalls the two spectacular victories over the Crimson that the Berlian maestro perpeirated...
...anniversary celebration is to serve as springboard for a drive to result College students for the Marine inactive reserve, which is now open to men who have had no previous Corps experience...
...built a dream house for herself and Jimmy in Hawaii. It was a Morocco-Persian mansion with two stone camels at the doorway, a swimming pool with a hydraulic-elevator springboard. Her "ShangriLa" cost $1,000,000. She also contributed $50,000 to the Democrats (Jimmy's political party), and when Jimmy was made U.S. Minister to Canada, she went along. She was a tall, shy, honey-blonde girl with a solemn face. Sometimes she entertained her friends by tap-dancing...
...represented the first year in the history of the world in which disarmament was really taken seriously. The Washington Conference, held in the fall of the year was the springboard, and the CRIMSON outdid itself in the pursuit of this objective. A series of 20 special articles examined this and other topics connected with world peace; countless editorials supported the position. Mass meetings were held in the Union and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart 'so said that Americans were learning that isolationism was impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany...
...swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...