At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

At the battle with Amalek, he is chosen with Hur to support the hand of Moses that held the " rod of God " ( Exodus 17: 9 ).

At age 17, Alcott passed the exam for a teaching certificate but had trouble finding work as a teacher.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

At 17 Jarry passed his baccalauréat and moved to Paris to prepare for admission to the École Normale Supérieure.

At least 17 reporters were in the round-up.

At the age of 17 he began to keep a copious diary in which he recorded his thoughts and dreams.

At 17 metres long, the Severn class lifeboat s are the largest class of UK Lifeboat ( rescue ) | lifeboat

At the same time, the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17 % per year.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

At that same period it was responsible for 17. 7 percent of goods and services imported by Cyprus.

At age 17, he sold several tales to The Black Cat, a magazine which specialized in unusual tales.

42, No. 1 ( Mar., 1927 ), pp. 99 – 115 ( article consists of 17 pages ) At JSTOR

At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old.

At 17, he left school at Sorèze to work for his uncle in his family's export business.

At 17: 00, Nehring launched his counter attack.

At 17: 00, Gott ordered 5th Indian Infantry Division to execute a night attack to capture the western half of Ruweisat ridge and Deir el Shein.

At Pentecost the Apostle Peter declared that this gift, which was making some in the audience ridicule the disciples as drunks, was the fulfilment of the prophecy of Joel which described that God would pour out his Spirit on all flesh ( Acts 2: 17 ).

At 17, Stephenson became an engineman at Water Row Pit, Newburn.

The halogens or halogen elements are a series of nonmetal elements from group 17 of the periodic table ( formerly: VII, VIIA ), comprising fluorine ( F ), chlorine ( Cl ), bromine ( Br ), iodine ( I ), and astatine ( At ).

At the age of 17 ( 1867 ), he began attending the University of Bonn, where he had planned to study history and philology.

At that time, the transmission system included 17, 700 kilometers of line.

At the age of 17, Tracy received the Social Security death-benefit money for the death of his father to rent an apartment for $ 90 a month.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

At 10: 10AM, a portion of the Pentagon collapsed ; firefighters spent days trying to fully extinguish the blaze.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

At least $ 100 million ( and much more by some estimates ) was spent on the project, which never became operational.

At the event a full-size working replica of the Rocket was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfield Market Festival.

At the Catechetical School of Alexandria, Jerome listened to the catechist Didymus the Blind expounding the prophet Hosea and telling his reminiscences of Anthony the Great, who had died 30 years before ; he spent some time in Nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that " city of the Lord ," but detecting even there " concealed serpents ," i. e., the influence of Origen of Alexandria.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

" At the age of 8, he had been sexually molested by a camp counselor, who had also taken nude pictures of him .... Poor Mike had spent his whole life racked with guilt and in constant fear that these pictures would someday surface in a way that might embarrass him and, especially, his adoptive father.

At nearby Gauldwell Castle ( now only with one partial wall left standing ) Mary, Queen of Scots, is reputed to have spent the night.

At the end of the operating cycle, the fuel in some of the assemblies is " spent " and is discharged and replaced with new ( fresh ) fuel assemblies, although in practice it is the buildup of reaction poisons in nuclear fuel that determines the lifetime of nuclear fuel in a reactor.

At the ceremony Weber told Smith, " You spent half of your career up in the air.

At the request of the Venetian Republic, Ottoboni was made Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro by Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ) in 1652, and was later given the bishopric of Brescia, in Venetian territory, where he quietly spent the best years of middle life.

At length the cardinals agreed to resort to the old expedient of electing a cardinal of advanced years, and proposed Cardinal Altieri, an octogenarian, whose long life had been spent in the service of the Church, and whom Clement IX, on the eve of his death, had raised to the dignity of the purple.

At the same time, debt servicing costs, from the money spent mechanizing agriculture, rose.

At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £ 50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter.

At a meeting on 6 January 1943 Hitler savaged Raeder, complaining that he had spent millions of Reichsmarks in the 1930s building a fleet that proved useless when war came, instead of spending the money on building U-boats, which had proven far more useful in the war.

At Spandau Prison, Raeder spent his days working in the prison library.

At the age of eight an aunt bought Cooper a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks.

At the end of September 2001 he had spent a few days away from school, for which he presented a medical certificate which was quickly identified as a forgery.

At W. F. Osgood's suggestion, Wiener became an instructor of mathematics at MIT, where he spent the remainder of his career, becoming promoted eventually to Professor.

At a banquet, Count Adhemar tries to trip up the unsophisticated " Sir Ulrich " by urging him to show the other guests a dance from his own country ; William, who's only spent a couple of hours learning to dance that day before the banquet, improvises with Jocelyn and comes up with something suited to a rock video ( the featured song in this scene was " Golden Years " by David Bowie ).

At the death of his parents in 1924, he spent the next 3 years on an LDS mission in Switzerland and Belgium.