Word: abreast
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...carried personally to the presser drape the backs of chairs. Country weeklies from Georgia are piled here and there, and "Goober" is none too concerned with House(office)keeping. But let no one, because of these oddities in Congressman Cox's make up, presume that he is not abreast of the times and that he is not an able legislator. WILLIAM E. GROSE Jackson Heights...
...Lewis got his first honorary degree last year from his alma mater Yale) this year became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from...
...marched back to his troops. The two minutes was stretched to two hours before the police fired a volley of tear gas shells. This had no effect except that the pickets brandished clubs in defiance. In good order the police and deputies then marched up six abreast, delivered a well-aimed volley of vomiting gas grenades before which the pickets fled...
Another highly important step in the general direction of intramural athletics has been made by including a member of the Athletic Council in the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Besides enabling the House teams to keep abreast of the development in Varsity athletics, it will aid in coordinating the use of equipment...
...they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section went to Treece, wrecked the C. I. O. headquarters there, another went on to Galena, marched up Main Street. As they came abreast of the C. I. O. headquarters, a volley of shots broke their ranks. When the sheriff got there he found nine Tri-Staters writhing in the street, C. I. O. headquarters deserted, no one to charge with the shooting...