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

Nothing is more promotive of digestion than laughter.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Undoubtedly the list of promotive causes is considerably augmented by maltreatment and the employment of injudicious remedies.

From Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. by Civiale Remedial Agency

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