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
These were found to be either abnormal and handicapping such as emotional parturition; or stimulative and promotive, as dynamogenic reaction.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry
I shall doubt hereafter whether superior intelligence is promotive of superior virtue.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
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 Brown, Theron
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