Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent study of Walt Whitman manuscripts has disclosed a number of significant unpublished documents, portions of which are presented in this book to afford opportunity for a firsthand study of Whitman's ideas and working methods. The introduction and notes aim to throw light upon the history and interpretation of the material but not to interfere in any way with allowing Whitman to speak for himself...
...will soon catch her up. He said that Germany, though restricted in plane manufacturing by the Treaty of Versailles, has established many a big factory outside her boundaries, and is "without equal" for training efficient civilian pilots at present. He said, after having brought up to date his firsthand knowledge of European airways, that the U. S. Post Office Transcontinental Air Mail service is "the most efficient and reliable of all the airplane transportation systems in the world." He admitted that he is building in Holland a gigantic, multimotored plane designed to do transcontinental passenger service between Manhattan...
...purpose of the school is to offer college students travelling abroad an opportunity for studying international affairs at firsthand, and to facilitate meeting with students of other countries. Last summer the courses began in the middle of July and extended through August and September. Some six hundred students, representing over 40 countries and one hundred and 50 different universities, attended them. While the courses were so arranged that students could arrive and leave practically at their own convenience, it was intended that they should stay at least two weeks, and as an actual fact a great many remainded for four...
...object is to aid these men in the study of social conditions through firsthand contact in sections of New York City where conditions are frequently at their worst; to give them an introductory training as Christian leaders; and to make clear the advantages of graduate study in preparation for such service. The men will work under supervision throughout the period of their residence--one or two men each in various church neighborhood houses, Young Men's Christian Associations, Settlements, and similar institutions of the city. Their work will occupy two periods out of three each day, counting forenoon, afternoon...
...superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither Kipling nor Conrad, In Dark Places is nevertheless a first-class book of adventurous short stories-and it would be only carping to criticize it for not being the masterpiece it does not pretend...