Word: boon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberty," said Sumner, "is not a boon, it is a conquest, and if we ever get any more, it will be because we make it or win it." He fought the sentimentality and venality of the Gilded Age, wrote his revolutionary Folkways (1906) to show the determining effect of social customs on conduct. "His conviction," says Gabriel, "was that the forlorn and probably futile hope of democracy was that the men who profess it should understand what they are doing...