Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventional theater productions. Wright had eliminated the proscenium arch, set the stage far out into the auditorium. His theater, Wright rumbled last week, was not just one more place to stage shows: "We are fighting to save the theater which needs new tools if it is to come abreast of the medium of movies. We thought this was a good place to begin our crusade...
...added supporting artillery, engineers, antiaircraft outfits, etc. Certain National Guard regiments and battalions would be mobilized and fully equipped, two more regular divisions would be added to the Army's ten. Three divisions would be set up as a base for further manpower expansion-to keep creeping mobilization abreast of creeping crisis. In round numbers the immediate requirements would probably total...
...keep the Washington press corps abreast of events, top Army, Navy and Air Force officers began daily briefing sessions in the Pentagon. It was also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman...
Many of his customers railed at him for making them sit three abreast on his Constellations and using DC-35 on runs which they felt deserved better service...
Refresher courses do not keep teacher abreast with now educational theories anthropologist Margaret Mead said last night in a talk on "the School in American Culture." Miss Mead delivered the Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education is Fogg lecture hall...