Word: raoul
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With the exception of the matchless Guynemer, no aviator has been better known to Americans than Major Raoul Lufbery, formerly of the Lafayette Escadrille. The names of even more successful fighters--Nungesser, Ball, and Bishop--fail to give the thrill that comes with the mention of Lufbery, the soldier of fortune and the incarnation of American dash and spirit. The greatest of the Americans who composed the Lafayette Escadrille, he has been among the greatest aviators in all the armies. Even the French, with their wealth of illustrious names to choose from, have called him "the incomparable pilot." No tribute...
Professor Raoul Blanchard, exchange professor to the University from the University of Grenoble, will give the last of his three special lectures on French geographical subjects in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture this afternoon will be "Les Pyrenees Francaises," and this lecture, like the others of the series, will be delivered in French...
...Paris the aviators will report to Dr. E. L. Gros, the director of the corps, to whom they will present their credentials. After receiving further examination and training with French machines, they will go to the front with Lieutenant Thaw, who is in charge of their division, and Adjutant Raoul Lufberry...
Professor Raoul Blanchard, exchange professor from the University of Grenoble, France, will give by special request three lectures on geographical subjects in the Geological Lecture Room next week. These lectures will conclude Professor Blanchard's work at the University. He has been in Cambridge since early in February, and has been lecturing on the urban geography of France and on the geography of the Alps. After his lectures next week, Professor Blanchard will travel through the West before going back to France...
During the next three weeks Professor Raoul Blanchard, exchange professor from the University of Grenoble, will give a course of six public lectures on "The European War on the Western Front." These lectures will be in French, and will be held under the auspices of the Lowell Institute in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston. Professor Blanchard is one of the greatest of French geographers, and these lectures offer an unusual opportunity to members of the University, especially to students of French and of Military Science. They will be given at 5 o'clock on Tuesday and Friday afternoons...