It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

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.

It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

( The largest problem that could be solved without the use of the intermediate output and input was two simultaneous equations, a trivial problem.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

The largest of these contingents was that of the Goths, who in 382, had been allowed to settle within the imperial boundaries, keeping a large degree of autonomy.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

Although over the past years more emphasis has been given to the construction of grassroots alternatives to ( capitalist ) globalization, the movement's largest and most visible mode of organizing remains mass decentralized campaigns of direct action and civil disobedience.

Output dynamic range is the range, usually given in dB, between the smallest and largest useful output levels.

Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size ( enumerative combinatorics ), deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ( as in combinatorial designs and matroid theory ), finding " largest ", " smallest ", or " optimal " objects ( extremal combinatorics and combinatorial optimization ), and studying combinatorial structures arising in an algebraic context, or applying algebraic techniques to combinatorial problems ( algebraic combinatorics ).

When focus is set to the hyperfocal distance, the DOF extends from half the hyperfocal distance to infinity, and the DOF is the largest possible for a given f-number.

When the hunt is over, prizes may be given for the largest number of eggs collected, or for the largest or the smallest egg.

Until the 19th century, cider was the largest agricultural export with up to a quarter of the agricultural land given over to orchards.

For a long time, Mexico has been one of the largest contributors to the United Nations regular budget, in 2008 over 40 million dollars were given to the organization.

The " 90 Day Study " as it came to be known, evoked a hostile Congressional reaction towards SEI given that it would have required the largest single government expenditure since the Second World War.

The most likely radii for a given neutron star mass are bracketed by models AP4 ( smallest radius ) and MS2 ( largest radius ).

Of all n-gons with given sides, the one with the largest area is cyclic.

Of all n-gons with a given perimeter, the one with the largest area is regular ( and therefore cyclic ).

In a review of pterosaur size estimates published in 2010, researchers Mark Witton and Mike Habib demonstrated that the latter, largest estimates are almost certainly incorrect given the total volume of a Pteranodon body, and could only be correct if the animal " was principally aluminium.

Equally there is criticism from Austria that Slovenia has not given it ` s German-Austrian minority and heritage, the same recognition that it has given to Italians and Hungarians, although Germans have historically been the largest ethhnic minority of the country.

The sphere has the smallest surface area among all surfaces enclosing a given volume and it encloses the largest volume among all closed surfaces with a given surface area.

The fountain is the largest public works gift ever given to the city of Berkeley.

In 2005, Cook and others computed an optimal tour through a 33, 810-city instance given by a microchip layout problem, currently the largest solved TSPLIB instance.

If no party has an absolute majority, the leader of the largest party is given the first opportunity to form a coalition.

The scale is open-ended with the largest volcanoes in history given magnitude 8.

To reach the largest television audience, the speech, once given during the day, is now typically given in the evening, after 9 pm ET.

One, the most supported by far of the largest number of sources, and given by the Church of St. John the Baptist, was 23 June.