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
This, I am quite sure, will be found not only compatible with, but promotive of, the widest and most permanent advantage to commerce and civilization.
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills
The guards are composed of boys who voluntarily devote a certain amount of time, out of school hours, to exercises promotive of a virile and intelligent patriotism.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
He found this action amazingly promotive of verbal accuracy.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
