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 age of twenty-four or twenty-five, he was ordained to the priesthood.

At the age of twenty-four he was appointed by his uncle Pope Gregory XII as Bishop of Siena and came into prominence.

At the close of the 18th century, he organised a group of twenty-four astronomers to prepare for a systematic search for the " missing planet " predicted by the Titius-Bode law between Mars and Jupiter.

At least twenty-four players of German heritage had been forced out with Muck, and orchestral morale was low.

At the same time, one archbishop and three bishops from Ireland ( selected by rotation ) were given seats in the House of Lords at Westminster, joining the two archbishops and twenty-four bishops from the Church of England.

At this point, the film returns to lines twenty-four to twenty-eight of Richard III, before again returning to Act 3, Scene 2 of 3 Henry VI ;

At the time of the annexation there were ten houses in Tennyson Avenue, twenty-four in Whittier Avenue and thirty-five on Bryant Avenue.

At age twenty-four, he was appointed director and undersecretary of the national Tobacco Institute.

At age twenty-four, Johnston would move to Colorado where he studied law and passed the bar exam in 1891.

At the end of his twenty-four years, Faustus is filled with fear and he becomes remorseful for his past actions, yet this comes too late.

At length, after remonstrances of the British and a promise made by al-Alfi of 1500 purses, the Ottoman Porte consented to reinstate twenty-four Mameluke beys and to place al-Alfi at their head.

At the start of the first novel in the series, Finnegan has lived on the World of Tiers for approximately twenty-four years.

I said: " At the Third Stroke " ( that does for all the times ), and then I counted from One, Two, Three, Four, for the hours, we even went as far as twenty-four, in case the twenty-four hour clock should need to be used, and then I said "... and ten seconds, and twenty seconds, and thirty, forty, fifty seconds ", and " o ' clock " and " precisely ".

At the request of the Fifth Army commander, General Charles Lanrezac, the BEF's commander, Field Marshal Sir John French, agreed to hold the line of the Mons-Condé Canal for twenty-four hours to prevent the advancing German First Army from threatening the French left flank.

At the behest of an angel he began his public career, with two companions, at the age of twenty-four, on a Sunday, the first day of Nisan, when the sun was in Aries.

At the end of twenty minutes, the seven slowest drivers are eliminated, and they fill positions eighteen to twenty-four on the grid.

At the age of twenty-four, he started activities in the textile mill areas of Kanpur.

At the age of twenty-four, he became a graduate assistant at Gonzaga University.

At cricket — his primary sport — he played over four hundred first-class matches in a twenty-four year career.

At the end of the fifteen days, pilgrims would confess their sins, receive communion and undergo a few final rituals before being locked in the cave for twenty-four hours.

At the age of twenty-four, she decided to become a minister and in 1990 received a Master's degree in Divinity from the Candler School of Theology and a Juris Doctor in Law from Emory University School of Law.

At 8: 00 a. m. twenty-four of Ireland ’ s diocesan bishops met Pope Benedict and seven leading members of the Curia in the first of three sessions, which continued to 1: 00 p. m. and resume after noon until 8: 00 p. m.

At the outbreak of World War I the regular RHA comprised twenty-four batteries, eleven of those serving in India with the Indian Army.