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Sumner

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Sum·ner  (smnr), Charles 1811-1874.
American politician. A U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1851-1874), he was a noted orator with an uncompromising opposition to slavery.
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Noun1.SumnerSumner - United States sociologist (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner
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Affectionately Dedicated to my young friend Sumner Hamilton Britton of Chicago
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It would be far easier to see you dead if it could be said of you as of Sumner 'No man dared offer him a bribe.
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Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy.
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