Word: abreast
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...Deal began as general counsel for RFC, having been hired away from the Farm Board to serve Jesse Jones in 1932. When, working with RFC's staff of 75 lawyers as many as 18 hours a day during the bank holiday, he managed to keep abreast of the tremendous legal complexities involved in demands for RFC help from thousands of banks in 48 States, Attorney General Cummings was impressed. When New Dealer Cummings borrowed Lawyer Reed to conduct the Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court in 1935 he was still...
...other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...
...only 17 courts failed to keep abreast of their dockets, against 34 the year before...
Charles A. Coolidge, Jr. '17: "Harvard shares, perhaps more than the rest of the community, the loss from Mr. Perkins' death. His complete mental honesty and directness, flavored with keen humor, kept him abreast with changing times and gave to his advice a wisdom which members of the Corporation, and those of the faculty who knew him, will sadly miss...
...make suitable provision for its aged and faithful employees. If the University is to continue to call itself a progressive institutions, and pride itself upon holding a place of leadership in the United States, it ought to think of such things sooner, or at least endeavor to keep abreast of the times, instead of bringing up the rear...