Sumner
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nər noun
1.
Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
3.
William Graham, 1840–1910, U.S. sociologist and economist.
4.
a male given name.
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Sumner Sum·ner (sŭm'nər), James Batcheller. 1887-1955.
American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on crystallizing enzymes.
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Sumner
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Sumner was a leading proponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the confederacy.
During the war sumner boldly advocated the policy of immediate emancipation.
Sumner was unusually farsighted in his advocacy of voting and civil rights for blacks.
The bill ultimately failed, but sumner still spoke of it on his deathbed.
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