Word: rockingly
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Tough are the jaws of a rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
...just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction...
...River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors go through it, however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where the waters were solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred, 66 of them bound down with 15,000,000 bushels of grain, had been caught in the freeze. From Detour...
...seemed to me more substantial food than the ordinary trout. They vary in length; our guide said he had seen one 28 inches long, but our party had to be satisfied with six or seven inches, although they saw many big ones. At our last camp on lower Rock Creek the guide caught his limit (twenty fish) and gave them to us to take back to Pasadena. He cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll of pedding which we were not to open until the fish were...
...went back from Rock Creek by another trail, south of our entrance, crossed a high interstream divide, called Siberian Pass, down to Whitney Meadows at the head of Golden Trout Creek, over the crest at Cottonwood Pass, down a tributary to Cottonwood Canyon, and so to our first camp, a circuit of about 100 miles in six days. The next day, we started at 5 o'clock. Deducting the time taken or towing a disabled car from the mountain road, and for breakfast, we made the 217 miles in seven and one-half hours. This time prompts a comparison between...