As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

-- Stock market Tuesday staged a technical recovery, erasing all of Monday's losses in the Associated Press average and making the largest gain in about two weeks.

The orchid family is one of the two largest families of angiosperms ( the other is Asteraceae ).

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

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

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.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.

Mergers yield bonuses for the two shareholders who hold, respectively, the largest and second-largest interests in a chain.

The aorta (; from Greek ἀορτή-aortē, from ἀείρω-aeirō " I lift, raise ") is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it bifurcates into two smaller arteries ( the common iliacs ).

The largest transports can only carry one or two main battle tanks.

Every year both clubs play the " Klassieker " (" The Classic "), a derby match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.

One of the two head offices of the Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland's fifth largest newspaper, is located in Aarau, as are the Tele M1 television channel studios, and several radio stations.

Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.

These are by far the largest forces needed for any Beethoven symphony ; at the premiere, Beethoven augmented them further by assigning two players to each wind part.

The two largest non-Christian religions are Hinduism ( 2 %) and Islam ( 1 %).

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 Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

In this scheme, climates are classified based on the biological effects of temperature and rainfall on vegetation under the assumption that these two abiotic factors are the largest determinants of the type of vegetation found in an area.

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

Each string is a one-dimensional object, and the largest number of dimensions in which two strings will generically intersect ( and, presumably, annihilate ) is three.

Typically, the two largest coalitions split the seats in a district.

They usually deployed on the mountainous route between the two largest Croatian cities, Zagreb and Split.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

`` Success '' and `` failure '' are just convenient labels for the two categories of outcomes when we talk about binomial trials in general.

in effect, he was practicing what he preached in his Berlin message two weeks ago when he declared: `` We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason ''.

We'd keep her a day or two, and the AA people would talk to her.

In a similar manner, we can talk about the product of more than two objects, e. g..

Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.

If I had heard him talk, only two days ago, I wouldn't dare hint at such a thing.

Within much morpheme-based morphological theory, these two views are mixed in unsystematic ways, so that a writer may talk about " the morpheme plural " and " the morpheme-s " in the same sentence, although these are different things.

Iago goads Cassio on to talk about his affair with Bianca, but speaks her name so quietly that Othello believes the two other men are talking about Desdemona when Cassio is really speaking of Bianca.

At the meeting, Feynman concluded his talk with two challenges, and he offered a prize of $ 1000 for the first individuals to solve each one.

In Toumey's 2008 article, " Reading Feynman into Nanotechnology ", he found 11 versions of the publication of “ Plenty of Room ", plus two instances of a closely related talk by Feynman, “ Infinitesimal Machinery ,” which Feynman called “ Plenty of Room, Revisited .” Also in Toumey ’ s references are videotapes of that second talk.

Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other.

Privately owned talk radio syndication networks in Canada are generally formed for the purposes of sharing programs across a group of stations with common ownership, although some are formed to distribute their one or two talk radio programs to a number of stations regardless of ownership.

Axel Schuessler's etymological dictionary presents two possibilities for the tonal morphology of dào 道 " road ; way ; method " < Middle Chinese dâu < sup > B </ sup > < Old Chinese * lûʔ and dào 道 or 導 " to go along ; bring along ; conduct ; explain ; talk about " < Middle dâu < sup > C </ sup > < Old * lûh.

The process is stacked in favour of multinationals with expense accounts who can afford to talk on the phone for two hours a week and jet to world capitals for meetings.

The press fought to get in, presuming that the two would be having sex for their cameras, but they instead found a pair of newlyweds wearing pajamas and eager to talk about and promote world peace.

He saw Roderic de Lalanne, a Flemish knight arrive with two little ships and 60 German soldiers and meet James IV and talk to Warbeck.

Trying to make them talk, Sirica gave Hunt and two burglars provisional sentences of up to 40 years.

For more serious misdeeds, a boy is summoned from his lessons to the Head Master, or Lower Master if the boy is in the lower two years, to talk personally about his misdeeds.

When William marched north and the two armies confronted one another the kings opted to talk rather than fight.

The couple may meet in front of the woman's parents ' teepee, where a blanket would be put over the two, allowing them to talk in private.

There is no indication in Genesis that the Serpent was a deity in its own right, although it is one of only two cases of animals that talk in the Pentateuch, Balaam's ass being the other.