At age seventy-four, he became what he shyly terms a `` pupil '' of Andres Segovia, the great guitarist of the Western world.

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.

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 age of ten, when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop, he was knocked down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

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 age of 30, in 1905, Schweitzer answered the call of " The Society of the Evangelist Missions of Paris " which was looking for a medical doctor.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

At the age of 16 he apprenticed as a stonemason and by the age of 20 he had reached journeyman status in this field.

At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.

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

At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.

At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.

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

At the age of 18, Johnson married 16-year-old Eliza McCardle in 1827 ; she was the daughter of a local shoemaker.

At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

At the age of 13 he entered the Göttingen Gymnasium, residing at the home of one of the professors.

At age 18, the youth began a rapid advancement through the company, becoming the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division.

At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845.

At the conclusion of the washing, 8 liters of water at 90-degrees-F ( 32*0C. ) are automatically metered from the rinse reservoir to the washing tubs, 4 liters to each tub.

At the command of Moses he stretched out his rod in order to bring on the first of three plagues ( Exodus 7: 19, 8: 1, 12 ).

At room temperature and pressure, barium has a body-centered cubic structure, with a barium – barium distance of 503 picometers, expanding with heating at a rate of approximately 1. 8 /° C.

At an address in Munich to the SA " old guard " on 8 November 1941 at the Buergerbrau beer cellar commemorating Hitler's 1923 failed putsch, he said that the term " blitzkrieg " was silly and never used it himself

At that same period total financial value of goods and services imported by Cyprus was about $ 8. 689 billion.

At Damaidi in Ningxia, 3, 172 cliff carvings dating to 6000-5000 BC have been discovered, " featuring 8, 453 individual characters such as the sun, moon, stars, gods and scenes of hunting or grazing.

At the end of the 2011 season, they had a regular season franchise record of 8, 771 – 8, 449 (. 509 ).

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

At approximately 8: 00 pm a warning light flashed in the cockpit, indicating that the aft airstair apparatus had been activated.

At approximately 8: 13 pm the aircraft's tail section sustained a sudden upward movement, significant enough to require trimming to bring the plane back to level flight.

At the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party which lasted from 26 February – 8 March 1948, Xoxe was implicated in a plot to isolate Hoxha and consolidate his own power.

At the high end of the scale, fingerspelling makes up about 8. 7 % of casual signing in ASL, and 10 % of casual signing in Auslan.

At peak, Haiti's total external debt was estimated at 1. 8 billion dollars, including half a billion dollars to the Inter-American Development Bank, Haiti's largest creditor.

At 8. 00am on 2 January 2008 completion of the takeover of ICI plc by Akzo Nobel NV was announced.

At 8 pm on the evening of 1 May, Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to kill his six children by injecting them with morphine and then, when they were unconscious, crushing an ampoule of cyanide in each of their mouths.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.

At pH 4. 8, the interior of the lysosomes is acidic compared to the slightly alkaline cytosol ( pH 7. 2 ).

" 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.

" Speaking at the opening of the Michael Reagan Center in Spring, Texas, October 7, 2005, Michael said, " At 8 years old, I thought I was going to hell.

At the same time, the share of Mexico ’ s cotton textile market the U. S. has increased from 8 percent in 1995 to 13 percent in 2002.

At least three redactions of the text are commonly recognized: Jaya ( Victory ) with 8, 800 verses attributed to Vyasa, Bharata with 24, 000 verses as recited by Vaisampayana, and finally the Mahabharata as recited by Ugrasrava Sauti with over 100, 000 verses.

At the end of the 1998 – 99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67, 000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8, 000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants.

At 8: 46 a. m., Atta crashed the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.