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.

Dinosaurs, as the largest vertebrates, were the first affected by environmental changes, and their diversity declined.

Hoover made changes, such as expanding and combining fingerprint files in the Identification Division to compile the largest collection of fingerprints to date.

While tides are usually the largest source of short-term sea-level fluctuations, sea levels are also subject to forces such as wind and barometric pressure changes, resulting in storm surges, especially in shallow seas and near coasts.

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

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Major changes in the Amungme lifestyle have been brought about by the Grasberg mine, situated in the heart of Amungme territory and owned by Freeport-McMoRan, the region's largest single employer.

The combination of decreasing interest rates, loosening lending standards and regulatory changes for publicly traded companies ( specifically the Sarbanes – Oxley Act ) would set the stage for the largest boom private equity had seen.

The largest increases in the prevalence of caries have been associated with diet changes.

The term " precession " typically refers only to this largest secular motion ; other changes in the alignment of Earth's axis — nutation and polar motion — are much smaller in magnitude.

The arrival of these two schools will bring the PSAC to 18 full members ; barring any further changes, it will become the largest NCAA conference in terms of membership.

One of the largest changes the Windows API underwent was the transition from Win16 ( shipped in Windows 3. 1 and older ) to Win32 ( Windows NT and Windows 95 and up ).

There are minor changes in names, places, and minor plot details, but the largest changes lie in the survival and reconciliation of Hermione and Leontes ( Greene's Pandosto ) at the end of the play.

The offer was accepted, and the largest and most drastic changes were made in the park since the time of Viscount Tyrconnel's folly building.

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Due to the significant doctrinal changes which occurred in WCG throughout the 1990s, the largest percentage of ministers and members left WCG during this decade.

One of the largest changes has been the availability of contraception, which has changed the lives of countless humans.

A 1999 study found that " the figures have grown much more muscular over time, with many contemporary figures far exceeding the muscularity of even the largest human bodybuilders " and that the changing cultural expectations reflected by those changes may contribute to body image disorders in both sexes.

The combination of decreasing interest rates, loosening lending standards and regulatory changes for publicly traded companies ( specifically the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ) would set the stage for the largest boom private equity had seen.

If the female dies, the breeding male changes sex, becomes the breeding female and the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male.

The magnitudes of the magnetic entropy and the adiabatic temperature changes are strongly dependent upon the magnetic order process: the magnitude is generally small in antiferromagnets, ferrimagnets and spin glass systems ; it can be substantial for normal ferromagnets which undergo a second order magnetic transition ; and it is generally the largest for a ferromagnet which undergoes a first order magnetic transition.

Thus, the German Historical School focused on specific dynamic institutions as the largest variable in changes in political economy.

This was the beginning of the end of the Boston & Maine corporate image, and the start of major changes, such as the labor issues which caused the strikes of 1986 and 1987, and drastic cost cutting such as the 1990 closure of B & M's Mechanicville, New York, site, the largest rail yard and shop facilities on the B & M system.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Juveniles may also have had different lifestyles than adults, filling predator niches between the enormous adults and the smaller contemporaneous theropods, the largest of which were two orders of magnitude smaller than adult Albertosaurus in mass.

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.

The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

During the third and final lunar excursion of the mission, astronauts Young and Duke were to explore North Ray Crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.

Brazil's three largest arms firms were established in the 1960s.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

The researchers estimate that the river — known as a submarine channel — would be the sixth largest river in the world if it were on land based on the amount of water flowing through it.

In the largest parks, the outfield fences were brought closer to the infield.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts.

They treated comradeship as of the greatest importance, those among them being the most feared and most powerful who were thought to have the largest number of attendants and associates.

This is a crude caricature of a highly competent general who authored Army Regulation 300 ( Troop Leadership ) in 1933, the primary tactical manual of the German Army in World War II, and under whose direction the first three panzer divisions were created in 1935, the largest such force in the world of the time.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

At the time of the battle, Sparta and Athens were the two largest city states.

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The largest air-breathing survivors of the event, crocodilians and champsosaurs, were semi-aquatic and had access to detritus.

The Church of Hagia Sophia, the sacred palace of the emperors, the hippodrome, and the Golden Gate were among the largest of the many churches, public edifices, and monuments lining the arcaded avenues and squares.