Word: propounder
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Scientists agree that locusts do not start to migrate because they are hungry. Indeed each locust eats comparatively little on the migratory flight, consumes much of its own fat, arrives lean but wrought up to the highest amorous pitch. Authorities now propound the theory that the locust migrations are a sexual manifestation, as though Mother Nature employed this spur to spread her grasshopping children as far and wide as possible...
After E. M. Rowe '27 had spoken in rebuttal for the Debating Council's plan, the presiding chairman, R. T. Bushnell. District Attorney of Middlesex County, put the question into discussion from the floor. For over an hour, undergraduates continued to ask questions, propound theories, offer statistics, in an attempt to settle the problem that is baffling the wisest politicians, sociologists, and political theorists...