Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buyer is passing, that of the stylist beginning. But not all expensive stores are abreast of the merchandizing times. Leaders among fashion-conscious shops are Macy's (Manhattan department store), Woolworth's (5-and-10 cent chain stores...
...very ones to lag, that a depressing lack of facilities should hamper the investigation of an exceptionally capable body of research specialists whose work is, paradoxically, as commercial as it is cultural in its value. The increasing need which the scientific departments feel for equipment which may keep them abreast of progress, makes the University's inability to satisfy this need understandable, but it makes even more urgent the necessity of generous contributions which may enable biologic enterprise at Harvard to realize its fullest possibilities...
...Hann of the University of Vienna, published his hand book in 1883, an edition of which was later translated into English by Professor Ward. When Dr. Hann died, the study had to be continued by someone else, for climatology needs a constant flow of new data to keep it abreast of the times. Professor Koppen took up the work in Europe, while the task of preparing the chapters of North America fell to the lot of Professor Ward and his associate, Professor Brooks of Clark University...
Police had to defend the bulky tax books from irate citizens who wanted to see how much their neighbors were paying. Everyone suspected discrimination, fraud. A queue of 20,000 indignants, four abreast, milled and chafed in the tax office out the door, far down the street. All taxes had to be paid by May i, to avoid penalties. Lawyers said there was no escape except through changing the law retroactively and getting refunds...
...International Conferences of American States yet held. Because the meeting did not bring forth something like a full-fledged League of American nations, it is said to have failed in its purpose. But when 20 nations, large and small, with a wide variety of interests, are trying to drive abreast, to accomplish anything at all is an achievement...