Hammett learned underworld slang at first hand, working as a detective for the Pinkerton agency; few other crime writers will have had the dubious pleasure of being beaten over the head with a house brick in an alley while tailing a suspect.
Nor was Hegel's knowledge and interest restricted to Western art: he read (in translation) works of Indian and Persian poetry, and he saw at first hand works of Egyptian art in Berlin (Pöggeler 1981, 206 8).
There are several different correctors, among which the "first hand" worked on the codex, but the total number of corrections is not high.
In contrast, students at the school-based system are taught in classrooms and school laboratories alone (Müskens et al. 2009), thereby receiving less first-hand work experience.
(This was, in fact, a problem that Yanisse and co-founder Jonathan Perichon saw first-hand working at a previous startup, same-day delivery service deliv).
Royal Festival Hall, London (www.philharmonia.co.uk) 27 & 28 January Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel A chance to hear at first hand the work that is so stirring up La-La-Land.
The Edinburgh performances will perhaps force a reappraisal and allow us to experience, at first hand, the work of a man some consider a genius, others believe to be a monster, and who was, perhaps, both in equal measure.
Word has gone round that Maestro Abreu, who founded El Sistema in 1975, has invited the Big Noise orchestra to Caracas to see first hand the work they do.
