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
This policy is not however fully carried out with merely constructive and promotive action.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
He published in Leipsic a journal promotive of his school of music, and founded a choral society in Dresden.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
This is, no doubt, promotive of health, provided it is not at first carried to an extreme.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
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