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 least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marlin made up an over/under double rifle for me in this caliber, using the now defunct Model 90 action in 20-gauge size.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

At the time I was filled with self-pity at this separation, but in the years since I have come to understand that the sight of me was painful to them after that outcry.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

At the Siege of Bayonne in October 1131, three years before his death, he published a will leaving his kingdom to three autonomous religious orders based in Palestine and politically largely independent on the pope, the Knights Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, whose influences might have been expected to cancel one another out.

At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents, his father dying and his mother remarrying.

At first, the falcon crest logo was also put on the jersey sleeves, but it was replaced by a red and white stripe pattern four years later.

At 19 years of age, Paul enlists in the German Army and is deployed to the Western Front where he experiences the severe psychological and physical effects of the war.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

At the time, Abd al-Rahman was about 21 or 22 years old.

According to The Guardian newspaper: " At the heart of years of dissent against psychiatry through the ages has been its use of drugs, particularly antipsychotics, to treat distress.

At the time of his death he was married to actress Liz Robertson, who was 36 years his junior.

At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

At best, the BCG vaccine is 80 % effective in preventing tuberculosis for a duration of 15 years ; however, its protective effect appears to vary according to geography.

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

At the age of nine years, Bernard was sent to school at Châtillon-sur-Seine, run by the secular canons of Saint-Vorles.

At least a thousand people were executed during the first six months of Pinochet in office, and at least two thousand more were killed during the next sixteen years, as reported by the Rettig Report.

... At least 2, 505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much greater.

At 72 years of age, Attlee contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw the Conservative majority increase.

At 36 years of age, former quaestors could stand for election to one of the aedile positions.

At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more than 120, but set no limit to the number of cardinals as a whole, including those over eighty.

At Tours he visited the tomb of Saint Martin and sent a message to Thierry predicting that, within three years, he and his children would perish.

At 11 he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina ; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova where he remained for several years.