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Democratic Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland had been propounding it for years, while Alfred Emanuel Smith had advocated a slight variant of it in 1928.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would go on till the company had departed, and Lady Agatha would come to her side, laughing, and ask her what horrible feudal theories she had been propounding.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine

They had been out walking, and Hugh had been propounding a difficulty which had reduced Lambert to the depths of gloom, and had even puzzled Balbus.

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)