Word: rockingly
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...example, witness the photograph of a thoroughly scoured and denuded area of southern Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...
...White Rock. Visitors to Chicago's World Fair in 1893 were almost able to drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought...
...water used in White Rock is taken from the company's springs, then carbonated at high pressure. Although it is claimed White Rock has medicinal properties, the company never stressed this in advertising but places emphasis on its use as a table water. Another product of the company is White Rock Pale Dry Ginger Ale which uses water from the Waukesha springs. Noncarbonated water is marketed under the name Still Rock...
...Mellon Institute (Pittsburgh) by the company. Engineering problems consist of speeding the bottling and making the amount of ginger uniform in each. Chemical research is concerned with the purity of the material used, the cleansing of the new bottles. Neither company buys back its old bottles, nor does White Rock...
Master Lambton is "The Red Boy," a quaint and pensive child in red velvet seated on a rock overlooking a? landscape of transparent gloom. Master Lambton was the eldest son of the first Earl of Durham; he died in 1831 at the age of 14. His father paid Sir Thomas Lawrence a little more than $3,000 for his portrait...