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Definition of Nonpractical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonpractical
Literary usage of Nonpractical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"... the teachers will be men who are in close touch with the ordinary problems of
business life, and not merely good instructors in nonpractical courses. ..."
2. The Teaching of Arithmetic by David Eugene Smith (1913)
"... of the answer only, as a business man would be inclined to do, or from the
standpoint of the logic of the school, the often nonpractical school ? ..."
3. American Medicine (1911)
"The nonpractical subjects, among which I would include the languages, should be
made voluntary. I hold that with a good knowledge of the essentials the girl ..."
4. British Guiana: Demerara After Fifteen Years of Freedom by John] [Brumell (1853)
"... than when the control of it has been assumed by the nonpractical proprietor
during his occasional visits to the colony, for, whatever may be said of the ..."
5. Arbitration in Controversies Between Employers and Employees by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (1913)
"... that there should be an equal number of men conversant with the questions that
can be handled and that can not be run away with by a nonpractical body. ..."
6. Conditions in the Coal Mines of Colorado: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of by Committee on Mines and Mining, United States, Congress, House (1914)
"$10; nonpractical mine worker, $25; ... shall be required to pay the balance of
the Initiation fee of a nonpractical mine worker. The local president shall ..."
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