Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator...
...force which binds the world by holding atomic nuclei together; researches at Columbia on the effects of calcium, of vitamins A and G upon longevity. In gathering this material Popularizer Gray visited dozens of laboratories, then checked back what he wrote with the scientific makers who knew it firsthand...
...happen to know about this incident because I heard the details firsthand from my aunt, Mrs. H. Allari, who was Harry Bridges' neighbor for several years. She lived at No. 2840 Pine Street, San Francisco, on the left side of the "five-room flat to a five-room house" from which the Bridges are moving next week...
Left then to choose between judges sitting hundreds of miles from Washington and actual firsthand participants in the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt chose the group he trusted best, eliminated the judges from consideration. Then it was: Reed, Minton or Black? Black, Minton or Reed? Stanley Reed has been a stanch defender of the New Deal before the very tribunal to which he might now be named, but Stanley Reed is also a bank director. Moreover, Kentucky is already represented on the bench by reactionary old James Clark McReynolds-at this thought Franklin Roosevelt may well have gritted his teeth...
Students at the Bureau, all of whom are registered in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, usually enter a variety of fields, Kraft said. Some have used their traffic experience for firsthand work, enrolling with the state police. Others have become traffic engineers, or have entered the field of regional planning...