I'm currently working on a book that will, among other things, have a section focussing on fashion, sustainability and second hand sources.
Right or wrong, it's a consistent message over the last several weeks that has come from half a dozen or more second hand sources.
Raychaudhuri responded to Ramakrishnan's email requesting "not to form opinions based on second hand sources".
It means careful research, allocating lots of time to reading, and gathering factual evidence from first hand sources.
You can also take the discount code straight to the box office, but the ticket agents might grumble at you for using a discount code from a second-hand source.
Among the things that filtered to the Rangers and were attributed to Barnaby through Ray by a third-hand source were assertions that Eric Lindros shows up for only some games, that Brian Leetch was spent after competing in the Olympics and playing so many minutes for the Rangers earlier in the season, and that the entire team had tired of Theo Fleury's antics.
While it originated from a good source, it was a second-hand source.
While Wikipedia is a second-hand source of essentially objective information, Quora collects first-hand subjective wisdom.
However, neither he nor his work can be taken as typical representatives of the Cārvāka / Lokāyata school or a first-hand source of information about that tradition.
"Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.," by Paul Krugman (column, Jan . 15, should not have relied on second-hand sources, including Red Herring Magazine, for information about the Carlyle Group.
It is true, as groups such as Human Rights Watch have pointed out, that Israel's refusal to co-operate forced Mr Annan to rely on second-hand sources.
