Word: abreast
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...British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode on a gun carriage. His trench helmet, wreathed in laurel, his military overcoat and his sword were laid on top. Behind the caisson was led his charger, Titanic...
...three ran five times around the track, each lap faster than the last. When they rounded the last turn, Bonthron was a full stride behind Cunningham. He made it up, an inch at a time, in the next 40 yards. Ten steps from the tape they were exactly abreast. Cunningham dived at the tape. Bonthron lunged without falling. The lunge won by inches, in 4.14. Bonthron jogged on around the track, came back to get the cup from Sportsman Hugh M. Baxter, who was a champion pole vaulter and high jumper in the 1880s...
...Connell decided to be diplomatic about the subject of vaudeville. "Vaudeville's harder than the legitimate stage, and it takes up more time. Actors have to keep abreast of the times, and if the public wants to look at living figures the actor must adjust himself. Condensed versions of shows that have been produced are a good idea, because they're not so much of an experiment...
From the party that sent him first into politics, the stolid thick-necked peasants of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund, Chancellor Dollfuss got a popular demonstration to offset Nazi propaganda. By special trains 100,000 of them came up to Vienna, stomped under streaming banners eight abreast round the Ringstrasse. In the railway station the little Chancellor barked excitedly: "This shows how ridiculous is the allegation that the people are not behind the Government. . . . You are my plebiscite...
...restores the red corpuscles which the poison breaks down, but knowledge of this would not have been available to me had not TIME made the announcement. Neither of us have any after-effects from our experience. The physician. Dr. G. Ralph Maxwell, should also be commended for keeping himself abreast of the times in this manner...