Word: deadwood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...profession to go from. It has many doors, leading into politics, commerce, and the ministry even. It is the art or subject matter of science, or of several sciences. It is the art of persuasion and of advising. As a science, it is not an accident. It is the deadwood in the tree of life, without which the tree could not stand. The study of history is necessary for that of law, because one cannot understand the present without a knowledge of the past...
...past nine days the severest blizzard of the season has been raging in the Black Hills. Two feet of snow on a level has fallen and the storm extended one hundred miles in every direction from Deadwood...