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Word: abreast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted on their use for outside mischiefmaking: as the leading head-chopper among Arab potentates, the Imam has little domestic opposition. The Imam of Yemen is hardly abreast of the 4th century, but the Communists can nonetheless be expected to continue complaining that it is the U.S. that backs reactionary and feudal Arab rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: On the Go Again | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

AUTO INSURANCE RATES are going up to keep abreast of mounting repair costs. Ohio will increase its rates by 12% to 25%, following similar raises this year in 21 states from Massachusetts to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output of its office force has increased 300% in the past five years, with only a 60% increase in employees, attributes a good part of the gain to its cafeteria program. Other corporations find that a company dining room helps executives keep abreast of what is going on in other departments, also brings workers closer to the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Corporate Way To the Worker's Heart | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...basic causes of the American farm problem is the failure of agriculture to keep abreast of industry in research and development. Farmers have concentrated on learning how to increase their yields, leaving it up to the Government to worry about their surpluses, while hundreds of new industrial discoveries have pushed the farmer out of much of his market. Synthetics, for example, have taken over 45% of the market for natural fibers, 62% of the market for leather shoe soles, and two-thirds of the market for household soap. Last week, prompted by the recent report of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH^: A New Approach to the Farm Problem | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

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