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At sixteen girls were generally apprenticed as servants for four years ; at fourteen, boys were apprenticed into variety of occupations, typically for seven years.
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At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.
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 the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.
At sixteen years, Hackman left home to join the United States Marine Corps, where he served four-and-a-half years as a field radio operator.
At the age of sixteen, he was convicted of armed robbery and sent to a juvenile detention center upstate in Toccoa in 1949.
At sixteen, Carson secretly signed on with a large merchant caravan heading to Santa Fe — with the job of tending the horses, mules, and oxen.
At the age of sixteen, however, he ran away from home, and, going to Jena, was helped by relations there to study at the university.
At the age of sixteen he went to New Castle, Delaware to begin the study of law under his cousin, David Finney.
At this, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh led a small walkout, just as he and Sean Mac Stiofain had done sixteen years earlier with the creation of Provisional Sinn Féin.
At Marsworth, about 35 miles ( 56 km ) from Brentford, two arms leave the main line, one to Wendover ( not currently navigable for its full length but being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust ) and the other descends through sixteen narrow locks for 4 miles ( 6 km ) to Aylesbury.
At the time, Alessandro Farnese and Guido Ascanio Sforza were aged fourteen and sixteen years respectively.
At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria.
At the age of sixteen, Saint-Saëns wrote his first symphony ; his second, published as Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, was performed in 1853 to the astonishment of many critics and fellow composers.
At the same time, the Court of Policy was enlarged to sixteen members ; eight of these were to be elected members whose power would be balanced by that of eight appointed members.
At sixteen, he had quit school and taken a job with Compton & Sons, a local lithography company, where he learned the technical details of engraving, color separation and printmaking.
At the age of sixteen, Marat left home and set off in search of fame and fortune, aware of the limited opportunities for outsiders.
At age sixteen, a discussion with a childhood friend on faults perceived in Christianity ( such as contradictions in creeds, along with medieval traditions ) led Charles to question his faith.
" At Tobolsk, she wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, about Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: " When she died she was only sixteen years old ," Anastasia wrote.
At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, a decision that took him to Lebanon, during Operation Blue Bat.
At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession.
At the age of sixteen he became an assistant to Sir Thomas Maclear at the Cape of Good Hope, where he observed
At age sixteen, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then a surgical assistant ( helping his father, a surgeon ) in the American Civil War.
At the age of sixteen, Whitman underwent a routine appendectomy and was hospitalized following a motorcycle accident.
At a few months shy of sixteen, she has risen to the top of the high school social scene and is happy and self-assured in her insular, fashion-obsessed world.
" At sixteen Bow " knew " she wanted to be a motion pictures actress, even if she was a " square, awkward, funny-faced kid ".
At and girls
At a nod from Songau, four lithe and muscular girls darted to Frayne's side and seized him by the arms.
At the top of Figure 5, for example, the Onset range and Completion range lines for the chosen growth center have been drawn for girls according to their mean and standard deviation values in Table 1.
At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls ' school, where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only three months before being overcome by extreme homesickness.
At this time, the girls ' objective was to obtain sufficient education to open a small school of their own.
At one point, the girls complained that one of their opponents was playing too slowly and suggested a clock should be used.
Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses:
At one time, estrogen was used to induce growth attenuation in tall girls.
At that time, girls were expected to remain separate from boys because of societal standards, though co-educational youth groups did exist.
At 15 he began to write lyrics (" I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants " MixMag 1996 ).
At the time, the color white to many symbolized both extravagance and sexual purity, and had become the color for use by girls of the royal court.
At the time, Duhan often posed as an MGM talent scout to meet girls, using the fact that MGM was a subsidiary of Loews.
At high school girls will usually wear culottes, skirts or pants and boys will wear shorts or long pants.
At her new school, she forms a friendship with a group of girls rumored to be witches, Bonnie ( Neve Campbell ), Nancy ( Fairuza Balk ) and Rochelle ( Rachel True ).
At the beginning the girls ’ school was situated there and later, between 1920 and 1930, it was the location of the first Naval School in Poland which was later moved to Gdynia.
At several points, in an attempt to move into Mattel and Hasbro territory, Matchbox produced dolls, first a line of pirate dolls for younger school-age boys, and later baby dolls for pre-school girls.
At the time some 40 strips were using boys as the main characters ; only three were using girls.
At its peak the College of Vestals consisted of 18 girls and women, though only the senior-most six were termed Vestals and were full priestesses ; the junior 12 were child-novices and maiden acolytes.
At the same time, the girls engage in typical teenage behavior, such as food fights and other activities.
At the time of the Rosenbergs ' execution, Esther is neither stimulated nor excited by the big city and glamorous culture and lifestyle that girls her age are expected to idolize and emulate.
At first, the other girls were jealous of Lila, but they all grew to like her, except for Helga.
At the ball, Bobby and the three boys propose to Maisie and the three girls, but the girls reply in unison that " we'll let you know at midnight " and everyone dances to " The Riviera ".
At the start of the war there were 40 boys and girls attending and these numbers increased to the point that a second school was opened at Aberlour House in 1947 by which time nearly 100 pupils were attending.
At the forefront of its activities was the religious education of Jewish girls, who were ignored by the Orthodox community.
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