recreative

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The most fruitful road to Joseph seems to be, as the Rev. Edington noted, one combining "good, serious Bible study and some recreative imagination."

From Time Magazine Archive

Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity�language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science.

From Time Magazine Archive

His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond.

From Time Magazine Archive

To derive the greatest amount of good from exercise, it must be combined with amusement, and be made pleasureable and recreative.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

Large revenues and large expenditures are mutually recreative.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various