In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.

And in short order the croupier had pushed several million francs her way.

) The House, which had passed its smaller appropriation before the President's urgent call for more, was expected to go along with the increased defense budget in short order.

The delay has to be short in order not to be perceived as echo, but above 5 ms to be audible.

" It is written in short phrases in order to be acted rather than sung ... tailor-made for Glynis Johns, who lacks the vocal power to sustain long phrases.

He next sent an army to subdue the areas north of the Hindu Kush and in short order all the different tribes began joining his cause.

The hermit Pope found time in the few short months of his Papacy to confirm the rule of the order, which he had himself composed, and to confer on the society a variety of special graces and privileges.

Therefore, compound crossbows generally use only pulleys that are both round and concentrically mounted, in order to capture the maximum available energy from the relatively short draw length.

These caches typically use very short caching times — on the order of one minute.

Bragg diffraction may be carried out using either light of very short wavelength like x-rays or matter waves like neutrons ( and electrons ) whose wavelength is on the order of ( or much smaller than ) the atomic spacing.

Beyond this, the government was principally able to fund only short, educational films, the most notorious of which were the agitki-propaganda films intended to " agitate ", or energize and enthuse, the masses to participate fully in approved Soviet activities, and deal effectively with those who remained in opposition to the new order.

Finally with their passports in order, they escaped from Spain by train, diverting to Banyuls-sur-Mer for a short stay before returning to England.

His contribution to military history was the first commissioning of a cavalry only unit which could be dispatched anywhere within the Empire within short order.

Carías had taken command of the government forces, obtained arms from El Salvador, and crushed the uprising in short order.

What followed was the Second Republic's short ( 1921 – 1926 ) and turbulent period of constitutional order and parliamentary democracy.

For example, the individual must be exhibiting behavior that is a danger to himself or others in order to be held, the hold must be for evaluation only and a court order must be received for more than very short term treatment or hospitalization ( typically no longer than 72 hours ).

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

A mode-locked laser is capable of emitting extremely short pulses on the order of tens of picoseconds down to less than 10 femtoseconds.

As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.

PGNAA is characterised by short irradiation times and short decay times, often in the order of seconds and minutes.

Although both rebellions were put down in short order, the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes of the unrest.

He had a short, heavy, powerful body.

‘‘ Aeneas: short, fat, with a good chest, powerful, with a ruddy complexion, a broad face,

The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

A short hitting action is not only useful for deception: it also allows the player to hit powerful strokes when he has no time for a big arm swing.

The legs are feather-free, and the toes are short and powerful with large talons.

In the more powerful cartridges, the short barrel of a carbine has significant disadvantages in velocity, and the high residual pressure when the bullet exits the barrel results in substantially greater muzzle blast.

As Weizenbaum later wrote, " I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.

It was most popular in the early days of computing, but applies even more today, when powerful computers can spew out mountains of erroneous information in a short time.

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

Their legs are also short, considerably shorter when compared to a small tiger or lion in a similar weight range, but are thick and powerful.

John grew up to be around 5 ft 5 in ( 1. 68 m ) tall, relatively short, with a " powerful, barrel-chested body " and dark red hair ; he looked to contemporaries like an inhabitant of Poitou.

After a series of short victorious wars he unified numerous German states into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership, then created a " balance of power " that preserved peace in Europe from 1871 until 1914.

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

The amount of time needed to attack any one missile was known as the " dwell time ", and if a powerful laser had a short dwell time, say 10 seconds, it would be able to attack multiple missiles during the minutes while the ICBM was launching.

During Washington's short second term, the Eddies fell from power: Vrdolyak became a Republican, Kelly was removed from his powerful parks post, and Burke lost his power as finance chair.

This in tandem with greater short and long term yields makes rotation a powerful tool for improving agricultural systems.

During the first centuries of what is called the " Amorite period ", the most powerful city states in the south were Isin and Larsa, although Shamshi-Adad I usurped the throne of Assyria and formed a short lived empire in the north.

Later, during the rule of Mithradates VI Eupator, Panticapaeum for a short period of time became the capital of much more powerful and extensive Kingdom of Pontus.

However, Holst is said to have considered the short, subdued but powerful tone poem his " best work ".

They have velvety fur ; tiny or invisible ears and eyes ; relatively atrophied hindlimbs ; and short, powerful forelimbs with large paws oriented for digging.

It will produce extremely short and powerful X-ray flashes which will have many applications.

Generally, sparrows are small, plump, brown-grey birds with short tails and stubby, powerful beaks.

Among the largest and most powerful of avalanches, dry slab avalanches can exceed speeds of 300 km / h, and masses of 10, 000, 000 tonnes ; their flows can travel long distances along flat valley bottoms and even uphill for short distances.

They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers.