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McGovern, as the propounder of new ideas, has made himself the focus of discussion�disastrously for his presidential drive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poet, psychologist, anarchist, teacher, novelist, propounder of extreme solutions to mundane problems, he could never see why conventional critics often dismissed him as a gadfly.

From Time Magazine Archive

But we must decorate a great speculation with the ornamental words of its propounder.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

In what way can we detect the propounder of the Notabilis expositio super canonem misse?

From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

This was a prime secret of his power, for the mere critic and propounder of unanswered doubts never leads more than a handful of men after him.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John