Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great teacher, and always a man of immense activity. After he lost his eyesight, readers kept him abreast of developments in learning and literature. He was an insatiable reader in other languages than that which he taught. In his last year someone heard him recite practically the whole of Faust in German, and one of his former students says that he learned more about Latin, German, Italian and French from Professor Gildersleeve than he learned from his Latin, German, Italian and French teachers. Latterly, he amused and occupied himself by writing sonnets reminiscent of his early life...
Once in this position, the leaders had little trouble in keeping their advantage and the two shells see-sawed down the course, spurt answering spurt with no appreciable change in the relative positions. As Harvard bridge loomed ahead the seconds started a lrive that carried them almost abreast their opponents, but crew C was equal to the occasion, answered the challenge with a still higher stroke, and crossed the line 50 feet to the good...
...battle all the way down the remainder of the course between the first and third crews, the rival strokes, Brown and Amory, keeping their shells pretty well abreast of each other. Spurt matched spurt for the last couple of hundred yards, but the third eight, rowing only seven-eighths of a mile, had the advantage of endurance and pulled out at the finish a scant quarter length ahead. The Junior eight finished three lengths behind...
...visitors opened the scoring after ten minutes of scrimmaging when a British attacking trio advanced from midfield abreast and, passing frequently to outwit the Crimson defence, caged a short shot for the initial goal. Their second score came several minutes later on a short twist shot by Wansbrough. Gallup and Thomas each has shots at the British goal but the University attack was weak, the half ending...
...while padding by Dr. Howe, the University coaches, and the members of the Graduate Advisory Committee on Rowing. There will be no attempt to actually race the men against each other for any set distance but the five eights will be tested for power and ability when rowing hard abreast of each other as well as when paddling at a lower stroke...