promotive

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Members: >Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Not till then can they be sure that their gifts will be promotive of good.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George

Our life on the ocean wave is a constant promotive of the appetite.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.

His virtues, and they were great ones, proved in all respects promotive of his worldly welfare.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)