promotive
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But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vicinity of melting snow, or a melting iceberg, is unpleasant and promotive of catarrh and pulmonary diseases.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Nothing is more promotive of digestion than laughter.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Everything which stimulates men to exercise the nobler qualities of their nature is promotive of health and longevity; and the true religion which anthropology commends will increase human longevity in proportion as it prevails.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
