Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crews B and C, stroked by J E. Lawrence '31, and John Fox '31, were abreast at the finish of a one mile Freshman practice race yesterday afternoon...
Watts and Norton were abreast for half of the course, when Watts began to pull ahead. Parker, in a final spurt, brought his crew from several lengths back up to within a length of the second crew...
...vicinity of the London Stock Exchange, prowled a pickpocket. Soon he espied an old gentleman, walking solo. "Easy money," he grinned and sidled up behind. Then, drawing up abreast, his nimble fingers felt for the oldster's watch. Instanter a bony fist hit him a resounding thwack on the jaw and he went reeling into the roadway...
...Edsel Ford. G. M. C., on the other hand, has a corps of over 80 high executives, its J. P. Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast of the moving public target. It has carefully trained its sales organization so that it can sight its market more efficiently; Ford devotes little thought to merchandising, preferring to make such a wow of a howitzer that the market will get into the line with...
...windy drizzle swept in upon the two hearses and their strange following of limousines, rubberneck busses, taxicabs, shabby family cars. The foot crowd marched 40 abreast with arms linked when wide streets were reached, swelling to 5,000 strong. Many wore Red armbands, lettered "Remember? justice crucified?...