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

The Gospel of Organized Play “A new gospel of the recreative life needs to be proclaimed in the country,” says J. R. Boardman.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by Fiske, George Walter

Finally, to the services just above described the public library has added another: the supply of books for proposes purely recreative.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore