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
While I believe that many suggestions may be made, useful to the young enjoyer and promotive of his wise vagrancy, I shall not undertake here the complicated task of offering them.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
But SELF-knowledge is, of all its other kinds, both the most useful and promotive of personal and universal happiness and success.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.
Where a proper supply of domestic exercise cannot be afforded, the cultivation of flowers and fruits might be resorted to, as a delightful and unfailing promotive of pleasure and health.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
