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

Freedom of discussion is highly promotive of the power of protection.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

Wire nettings hidden by shrubberies from all but the shameless trespasser you will find far more effective, more promotive to beauty and more courteous.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

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.