abreast
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Abreast of New York City, she sensed she was off-course.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Abreast of the turbine engine room were some of the ship's stores.
From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by Government, British
Abreast of it, along the atoll, travelling with equal speed, was a stiff bending of the cocoanut palms and a blur of flying leaves.
From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack
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