Word: abreast
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...most specific fault History I finds with commercial tutoring notes is "the general failure to keep abreast of the changes in the reading of the course." In order to check up on whether students are taking adequate notes this year, the course has required its students to hand in their notes for examination and marking...
...sometimes happens that a department has lost its specialized competence, through falling to keep abreast of developments in its field. It may then need, through the intervention of the Administration, to be reconstituted, or to receive an infusion of "new blood...
Since many record fish have been landed off the southeast coast of Florida, Miami is headquarters for winter anglers. Last week, with bands blaring and airplanes circling overhead, a mile-long flotilla of fishing boats, five abreast, paraded out of Biscayne Bay. It was the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament and 2,000 deep-sea anglers, who for weeks had been dreaming of sailfish dancing on their tails, were off for the Gulf Stream four miles away to try their luck, skill, and endurance...
...centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions...
What happened when the Queen Mary came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers...