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At Eton, there are dozens of organisations known as ' societies ', in many of which pupils come together to discuss a particular topic, presided over by a master, and often including a guest speaker.
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At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "... he was extremely argumentative — about anything — and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys .... We enjoyed arguing with him.
At Eton he played tricks on John Crace, his Master in College, among which was to enter a spoof advertisement in a College magazine implying pederasty.
At Eton and at Cambridge, Keynes had been prolific in his homosexual activity ; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.
At the Restoration of the king in 1660 he was favourably received at court, and in 1665 would have received the provostship of Eton College, if he would have taken orders ; but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.
At the age of thirteen Huxley attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and continued to develop scientific interests ; his grandfather had influenced the school to build science laboratories much earlier.
At Eton he was a favorite of Oscar Browning, an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal.
At a fancy-dress party at the Firth family house of Cavendish Hall, Suffolk, Francis dressed up as a flapper with an Eton crop, beaded dress, lipstick, high heels, and a long cigarette holder.
At Eton Powell spent much of his spare time at the Studio, where a sympathetic art master encouraged him to develop his talent as a draftsman and his interest in the visual arts.
At school he wrote for the College Magazine, edited the subsequent Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving Eton contributed verses to the Etonian during 1820 – 1.
At Eton, Rosebery notably attacked Charles I of England for his despotism, and went on to praise his Whig forebears-his ancestor, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, was a minister to George I of Great Britain.
His first role in a major film production was in A Yank At Eton ( 1942 ), where he played a snobbish bully opposite Mickey Rooney.
At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.
At the upper end of the scale, public boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow were founded or greatly extended to meet the growing demand for the education of the children of those in colonial service overseas.
At Eton in 1658 he preached the funeral sermon of Francis Rous, the provost ; in 1660 he was ejected.
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At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.
At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.
At this time, however, there are signs that increased availability of mortgage credit will not act with the usual speed to stimulate a sharp rise in residential construction.
At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.
I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!
At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters, counting couples as singular.
At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.
At the same time, there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist pressure.
At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.
At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.
At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??
* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.
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.
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