Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss who had become a world figure overnight. He had not conferred with such eminent students of the stratosphere as Regener, Hergesell, Hansen. His instruments were inadequate; Regener's devices would have permitted accurate measurements. Science already knew as much about the cosmic ray as Piccard could learn at firsthand. All told, his most important contribution was the proof that men can live in an airtight container. Those findings might be useful to the men who are building a stratosphere airplane in the Junkers plant at Dessau...
...forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh. From firsthand, expert knowledge of political crooks Steffens gradually came to like them, began to despair of righteous people, to disbelieve in the value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take him for a cynic. In his estimates of the history he shared he is realistic; only in his prophecy...
Tosca, by Italian artists and orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $21)?The Puccini-Sardou opus more vividly performed than in many a leading opera house. The recording would warrant a blindfold competition with a firsthand hearing...
...Intimate glimpses of Whitman make his book a valuable addition to the firsthand records of the poet's life."--New York World...