At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

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 the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

At the height of the rainy season, the front may reach as far as Kanem Prefecture.

At this point, the water pushes northward up the Tonle Sab and empties into the Tonle Sap, thereby increasing the size of the lake from about 2, 590 square kilometers to about 24, 605 square kilometers at the height of the flooding.

At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.

At its pre-war height, the movement often pursued pseudoscientific notions of racial supremacy and purity.

At their greatest height they reach an elevation of about, the highest point in southern Finland.

At the party's height it boasted 3, 000 cumainn, an average of 75 per constituency.

" At the height of his fame on Diff ' rent Strokes, he earned as much as US $ 100, 000 per episode.

At their height, the Assyrians dominated all of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, and Babylonia.

At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.

At the height of its popularity, an entire year's worth of shows would be taped in two separate week-long sessions, then individual shows would be assembled from edited sections.

At the height of the inflation, one US dollar was worth 4 trillion German marks.

At the height of the Persian tradition of illustrated book production ( 1300 to 1600 C. E.

At the height of his popularity as a director, Whale directed The Road Back, a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1937.

At the height of her career, she was known as " The Queen of Rock and Roll " as well as " The Queen of Psychedelic Soul ", and became known as Pearl amongst her friends.

At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade, but at its height in the mid-12th century the kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Palestine.

At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of modern southern Libya, eastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon.

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

At its highest point, it reaches a height of 1, 834 feet ( 559 m ).

At its height Cahokia is believed to have had a population of between 40, 000 and 80, 000 people, making it amongst the largest pre-Columbian cities of the Americas.

At the height of Viking expansion into Dublin and Jorvik 875-954 AD the longship reached a peak of development such as the Gokstad ship 890.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

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 start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

At the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet in 1824 as an improvement on night writing.

At about 08: 00 the French artillery on their right wing opened fire, answered by Colonel Blood's batteries.

At about 08: 00, after Cadogan had just passed Merdorp, his force made brief contact with a party of French hussars gathering forage on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

At the beginning of the battle, the English simulated flight on their left wing that provoked a hasty charge by the French knights against the archers.

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.

At the sight of the French, Troubridge abandoned the vessel and made strenuous efforts to rejoin Nelson.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

At 18: 20, as Goliath and Zealous rapidly bore down on them, the leading French ships Guerrier and Conquérant opened fire.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

At that time the French congregation of the order was composed of twenty-one monasteries, the head of which was that of Paris, and was governed by a Provincial with the authority of General.

At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.

At that time the French and Chinese reconvened Geneva peace talks ; Eisenhower agreed the U. S. would participate only as an observer.

* 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.