Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus seems strange that Holbrook finds it necessary to summarize or abbreviate some of Twain's best tales, for example the episode of Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim on a Mississippi raft. Some local men, searching for escaped slaves, ask Huck if his companion is "white or black." Huck invokes the old tall-tale weapon, and convinces the men that his companion is his smallpox-afflicted "pop." The tale takes on fantastic proportions, but the authorities take in every word and even give Huck two $20 gold pieces before fleeing the pestilence...
...Benjamin Franklin's papers. The University of Minnesota has launched a series of critical introductions to U.S. writers aimed at foreign readers, while the Johns Hopkins Press is running off copies of its five-volume Presidential Nominating Politics just in time for the 1960 campaign and a raft of orders from aspiring, though unnamed, U.S. Senators...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed a new film star: Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, whose craft in the ring has kept him on top of the fight game for years, whose craft on a raft got him successfully through a screen test for the role of Jim, the runaway slave, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
Fish Finder. A small (6 in. in diameter), portable fathometer depth sounder for amateur fishermen, which flashes a red signal when a small boat passes over a fish, was put on sale by Raytheon Co. The device, small enough for use on a canoe or raft, sends out ultrasonic signals that fish cannot hear, is powered by a self-contained battery...
...choice of All's Well raises a raft of problems (some of them insoluble). One of these is of long standing, and arises from the publication of Shakespeare's collected plays by his fellow-actors John Heminges and Henry Condell in the celebrated First Folio of 1623. In this volume the publishers divided the plays into "comedies," "histories," and "tragedies"--a categorization that has perdured far beyond its usefulness. A considerable number of the plays either do not fit in any of the three divisions or do not belong in the one assigned them in the Folio; All's Well...