Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...
...RAPHAEL SEMMES JR. Ensign, U. S. Navy U. S. S. Louisville San Francisco, Calif...
...SEMMES JR. City Engineer (Great Grandson Raphael Semmes) Pensacola...
Frederick C. Packard Jr., assistant professor of Public Speaking and Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy will give talks on poetry this afternoon and evening at the Poetry Room of Widener Library...
Most effective Confederate raider was Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, who captured 86 vessels, burned 62 of them. In Semmes of the Alabama, Author Roberts, a devoted, "unreconstructed" Southerner, tries hard to make Semmes a heroic figure. But Semmes's exploits, unlike those of most Confederate leaders, seem almost as shabby now as they did to Unionists of 1864. The fast, heavily armed Alabama merely overhauled unarmed sailing vessels, stripped and burned them. Semmes fought only two battles, sank the Hatteras and was soundly whipped by the Kearsarge. Giving none of the background of British and American maritime rivalry...