Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs to know something about everything. . . . Wide historical reading. . . . He could do with a typewriter, and he ought to have a car. The car will enable him to travel . . . all over the country, asking for jobs on newspapers and being turned down. . . . He will acquire large wads of firsthand observation of newspapers, people, towns and open country. . . . He should eventually become able to get a job on a newspaper on the strength of credentials from some newspaper he never worked on, because he will gradually learn what convincing newspaper credentials look like...
From the oldtime saloon and penitentiary came many an oldtime evangelist-converted drunks and burglars who could denounce sin after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point...
...live for some such loveliness Poet Dillon a year ago gave up his job as a Chicago advertising man, turned to poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship. On April 30 he was already Europe-bound, off just too soon to receive news of his prize firsthand...
...plague-infested Orient and return with a continuous threat of reintroducing the awful Black Death to Europe.? The U. S. has been happily free of plague for a dozen years, because of strict water front precautions. The Europeans were sent to study those precautions at firsthand. Ships carry rats which carry fleas which carry bubonic plague...
Abroad Secretary Stimson had a double mission: 1) to meet Europe's statesmen and learn their problems firsthand; 2) to sound them out on arms limitation at the Geneva conference next February. That he had participated in the London Conference was almost accidental. As he sailed for home, he figuratively lifted his hat to Europe in a statement of farewell...