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Practicable heating systems for simple plants have not yet been developed.
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Among Canon Barnett's works is _Practicable Socialism_ (1888, 2nd ed. 1894), written in conjunction with his wife.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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A Most Practicable and Profitable Method: This was found by the Connecticut Experiment Station to be both practicable and profitable.
Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915
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Practicable enough when the number of pupils was very limited, the individual method gave rise, in classes that were numerous, to loss of time and disorder.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Practicable plan for primary schools greatly needed.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908
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The Rev. Samuel (later Canon) Barnett in the same review a month earlier advocated Free Libraries and graduated taxation to pay for free education, under the title of "Practicable Socialism."
The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906
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The inferrence therefore deduced from those premices are that the best and most Practicable rout across the Continent is by way of the Missouri (falls of Missouri) to the entrance of Dearborn's river or near that place; from thence to flathead (Clarks) river
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Practicable horns, of a somewhat too yielding substance, branched from a front of pasteboard, and
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Practicable horns, of a somewhat too yielding substance, branched from a front of pasteboard, and
Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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Practicable and beneficent here, it must be the same there.
The Duel Between France and Germany Charles Sumner 1842
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