Word: firsthand
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Harvard has learned this firsthand the last three years...
Farrar, who both played and coached for Brown, knows about the rivalry firsthand...
Having lived in America both before and after 9/11, Al-Dewachi says he has seen firsthand the changing nature of such consciousness. Photographed, fingerprinted and screened by the Immigration Naturalization Service, Al-Dewachi speaks of this exhibit as a way to mediate this form of racial science and profiling. “Racial science still exists and is alive and present,” he says, “only today it is undertaken in the name of security and not science...
...understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought--and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability of his own primitive species not to be undone by its own cleverness...
...understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought - and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability of his own primitive species not to be undone by its own cleverness...