Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

Both home and auto radios were in excellent demand, with retail sales of home sets ahead of 1959 in every month of the first eleven ; ;

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

Both theories easily describe the first reaction: CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COOH acts as an Arrhenius acid because it acts as a source of H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup > when dissolved in water, and it acts as a Brønsted acid by donating a proton to water.

Both statements are true, the first in the south, and the second to the north.

Both parents will lead the young birds to food and care for them for 14 – 16 days until their first flight.

Both parliaments gave unanimous votes of thanks, each captain who served in the battle was presented with a specially minted gold medal and the first lieutenant of every ship engaged in the battle was promoted to commander.

Both the first method for cladistic analysis and the school of taxonomy originated in the work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig, who referred to it as " phylogenetic systematics " ( also the title of his 1966 book ); the use of the terms cladistics and clade was popularized by other researchers.

Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America.

Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

Both the Duchess and her husband Richard Bertie first opposed the marriage, and the Queen initially withheld her consent.

Both these muscles are inserted with two heads proximally and distally to the first metatarsophalangeal joint.

Both heads are inserted into the lateral sesamoid bone of the first digit.

Both were based on storylines from the first manga.

Both died in infancy while Verdi was working on his first opera and, shortly afterwards, Margherita died of encephalitis on 18 June 1840, aged only 26.

Both the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire quickly grew into the first global political and economic systems with territories spread around the world.

Both GM and Ford provided studies to the Australian Government outlining the production of the first Australian designed car.

Both teams participated in the 1995 NFL Expansion Draft, with the Jaguars taking Steve Beuerlein with the first pick.

Both kinds of Midrashim were at first preserved only orally ; but their writing down commenced in the 2nd century, and they now exist in the shape chiefly of exegetical or homiletical commentaries on Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ).

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims agree al-Mahdi will arrive first, and after him, Jesus.

Both sides agree ... that Rome, as the Church that ' presides in love ' according to the phrase of St Ignatius of Antioch ( To the Romans, Prologue ), occupied the first place in the taxis, and that the bishop of Rome was therefore the protos among the patriarchs.

Both the Empress Galla Placidia and her husband Constantius III favored Eulalius, who had been elected first.

Both QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign are often used in the final stage of the electronic design process.

Both Argos and Opous claimed to be Prometheus ' final resting place, each erecting a tomb in his honor.

Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words.

Both the initial free recall and the final free recall showed a recency effect.

Both teams were unable to score on each of their next possessions, but on the period's final play, Reich threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Bills receiver Don Beebe, despite Cowboy complaints that the touchdown should have been nullified because Reich, while scrambling to avoid the Cowboy rush, crossed the 40-yard line for what should have been ruled an illegal forward pass.

Both of them complete with a final examination.

Both were re-released in the final years of the Nintendo Entertainment System with gray cartridges.

Both the final House and Senate versions of the amendment broadly protected the right of citizens to vote and to hold office.

Both teams had gone through the tournament without loss, but Sweden's fast breaks became the key in the final ; they scored 14 of their 34 goals on fast breaks.

Both simulation and experimental measurement show that during the critical final stages of collapse, the bubble wall velocity exceeds the speed of sound of the gas inside the bubble.

Both films occasioned major disputes between Bogdanovich, who still demanded a measure of control over his films, and the studios, which controlled the financing and final cut of both films.

Both random and points-based methods for determining stat totals exist, but the final result will be a number on a percentile scale ( 1-100 ), which is then used to determine the character's skill bonus at actions which employ that stat.

Both factors are broken up (" partitioned ") into their hundreds, tens and units parts, and the products of the parts are then calculated explicitly in a relatively simple multiplication-only stage, before these contributions are then totalled to give the final answer in a separate addition stage.

Both realms were in decline at the time of a final, all-out siege from the East ; however, Minas Tirith survived the siege whereas Constantinople did not.

Both adaptations were published in 1985, and differ from the movie in that they feature a fourth ending cut from the final film.

Both athletes made the final, in which Blankers-Koen got off to a bad start ( she would later claim she thought there had been a false start ).

Both Louth ( in 1934 and 1936 ) and Mayo ( in 1959 ) have contested the All Ireland senior final in the past.

Both Lleyton Hewitt and Venus Williams were unsuccessful in their title defences, Hewitt being defeated in the semi-finals by Andre Agassi and Venus being defeated in the final by her younger sister Serena.

Both boxers continued this pattern in the final round, with De la Hoya trying to slow down the offense while displaying signs of exhaustion, as Trinidad continued to possess control.

Both parties renewed their alliance several times and it thus lasted until Dithmarschen's final defeat and Dano-Holsatian annexation in 1559.

Both the 2010 Blue Devil football team and the 2010-11 Blue Devil boys ' basketball team came within one game of reaching the final phase.

Both tracks meet at Rawson Pass for the final climb to the Kosciuszko summit.

Both Bemular and Redman were designed by Toru Narita, who also came up with the final design for Ultraman based on his Redman design, now resembling a less-scary Buck Rogers-style alien being, mixed with a bit of the iconic " Roswell Alien.

Both attempts failed, despite Zita's staunch support ( she insisted on travelling with him on the final dramatic train journey to Budapest ).