At the age of 13, he was sent to Gresham's School in Norfolk, where he remained from 1926 until 1931, when he was 18.

At 13, Christopher went to Gresham's School, Holt where he showed signs of brilliance but in general performed poorly.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

At the rear of the auditorium, upstairs, some men tried to push open the door to the box corridor.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

At some colleges and universities, a faculty committee reviews and reports to the administration on the qualifications of candidates.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.

At Fort Garry some of the Swiss also decided to cast their lot with the United States, and in 1823 several families paid guides to take them to Fort Snelling.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

At first hardly a person in the audience moved, although some umbrellas were opened.

At Yokosuka he was restricted to the confines of the Base because Walt Perry, being thoughtful, knew that Doc might have to draw some medical supplies from the hospital or the Supply Base.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

At first he regarded his new life as a renunciation of his art, and fell out of practise: but after some time he resolved to study and learn by heart the works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Widor, César Franck, and Max Reger systematically.

At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

At some point, he was alleged to have accompanied Swein on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but proof is lacking.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

At some point before the 13th century an earthquake caused a fissure near the northeastern edge of the acropolis.

At some point in the life cycle gamonts are formed.

Washington was hard to miss: At exactly six feet, he towered over most of his contemporaries.

At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall.

At this length, he would tower over most of his common contemporaries.

At this time, they were playing extended numbers such as " Revelation " ( originally titled " John Lee Hooker ") and getting the attention of such contemporaries as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.

At the war's conclusion in 1721, Bering was not promoted like many of his contemporaries.

At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton ( 1874 – 1936 ) and Hilaire Belloc ( 1870 – 1953 ).

At the height of his power Jakob Fugger was sharply criticized by his contemporaries, especially by Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther, for urging the Pope to rescind or amend the prohibition on the levying of interest and for the sale of indulgences and benefices.

At her baptismal ceremony, contemporaries wrote that Charles, despite his best efforts, appeared upset at the child's sex.

At the academy, Milner played against contemporaries from other clubs in the north, including future Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney.

At Eton, his contemporaries included Cyril Connolly, who later described him as:

At each of these seats of learning, he left his mark ; beyond any other of his contemporaries he animated the dry bones of Roman law.

At the time, his law of octaves was ridiculed by his contemporaries and the Society of Chemists did not accept his work for publication.

At the time, the band's sound was unlike that of any of its contemporaries in the then fledgling Japanese ska scene, and over the course of the past 21 years, their innovation has proved to have been very influential on Japanese music as a whole.

At the time of her marriage Proust wrote that she " was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries ," and added that " she looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco ".

At an age when most of his contemporaries retired from politics, Byrnes was not yet ready to give up public service.

At some point, as Patriarch Nikephoros records, Kubrat expelled the Avar troops from his lands and ruled alone over the united Bulgars, thus creating " Great Bulgaria ", as it was known to its contemporaries.

" At Durham Castle, contemporaries described how the motte-and-bailey superstructure arose from the " tumulus of rising earth " with a keep rising " into thin air, strong within and without " with a " stalwart house ... glittering with beauty in every part ".

At a time when the state was practically bankrupt, he encouraged the king in extravagance, and accumulated for himself a fortune estimated by contemporaries at forty-four million ducats.

At the end of the 18th century some contemporaries even compared the Imperial Chamber Court to the National Assembly in Revolutionary France.

At both the latter, one of his contemporaries was Alan Ryan, later a professor of politics at Princeton and then Warden of New College Oxford.

At his death he left behind a body of literature larger than that of his Renaissance contemporaries: in fact, his work rivals in size the canons of Spenser and Milton.

At the time, classification focused on the habitat and medicinal properties of the plant and Morison's criticism of systems promoted by botanists such as Jean and Gaspard Bauhin caused some anger among his contemporaries.

" At Durham Castle, contemporaries described how the keep arose from the " tumulus of rising earth " with a keep reaching " into thin air, strong within and without ", a " stalwart house ... glittering with beauty in every part ".

At her salon she associated with many of her contemporaries in the Parisian literary community, such as Victor Hugo.