Word: abreast
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...Seniors will assemble in the Yard in front of Holworthy at 3.30 o'clock dressed in caps and gowns. The class will then march two abreast, headed by the First Marshal and the Chairman of the Class Day Committee, between Thayer and University Halls to Appleton Chapel...
...organized the privates who have been drilling weekly in the Baseball Cage yesterday marched and drilled in the open air. Company G assembled in front of Persis Smith Hall, where the rifles are stored, at 2 o'clock and after a little preliminary practice with arms marched four abreast down Boylston street, over Anderson Bridge and up Charles River Speedway, halting near the Newell Boathouse. Here, under the supervision of Lieutenant Edwards, U.S.A., the company went through the manual of arms...
...combination that needed no handicap to win. The Crimson players won on excellent all-around hockey, team-work and strong defensive work, coupled with the "punch" at the right moment that was so utterly lacking in the Yale game. Coach Winsor's forwards, drilled to follow back four abreast, worked perfectly for defensive work, while Captain Morgan, Loty, and Wylde kept the visitors working hard for their two tallies. As was the case last year, the Crimson forwards announced in keeping the great Hobey Baker well covered, and against Percy and "Ned" Baker, he had little chance to get under...
...well as in the United States, in order to maintain the highest and most authoritative standard possible within the field indicated. The preliminary statement of the new quarterly expresses the hope that "'The Military Historian and Economist' will appeal not merely to army and navy officers anxious to keep abreast with the theory of their profession, but to the plain man of business who realizes that the isolation of this country has gone forever, that the clash of armies is merely the most violent incident of increasingly sharp trade competition, and that modern doctrines of the conduct of war repose...
...runs. Harvard may take some unction in the fact that Yale can still be fooled by an elusive attack. Yale's basket formation for forward-pass defense, four men back, was well conceived--it was patterned after the Harvard defense--but her normal defensive arrangement of backs, three abreast, twelve yards back, is open to grave criticism. She got her shift into action in good style, and the backs started quickly. She lacks long-gaining plays...