promotive
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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
Everything which stimulates men to exercise the nobler qualities of their nature is promotive of health and longevity; and the true religion which anthropology commends will increase human longevity in proportion as it prevails.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Our life on the ocean wave is a constant promotive of the appetite.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
Nay, it is more than probable that the king daily, in prayer, looked to God for guidance, and that he thought that he was doing that which was promotive of the interests of England.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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