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1 He formulated the theory that light is composed of pulses.
2 Pestalozzi formulated the theory for the secular school.
3 Not that he ever formulated the theory in words, but he vaguely felt it and adhered to it.
4 From this, he formulated the theory that Americans were unworthy of life, arrogant animals who would have to be eliminated.
5 Another precisely formulates the theory of greatness insisted upon by Fielding with so lavish an irony and so masterly a wit.
6 In the attempt to explain plant and animal life, Aristotle formulated the theory that a special form of animating principle was involved.
7 A truer view of Nature was adumbrated by Aristotle when he formulated the theory of an Energy ever generative of the sensible.
8 And once he looked a long time at his wife and the Duke, and formulated the theory that she must have refused him.
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