Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...believed that an association of this sort would materially help the cause of good, clean sport, and would attract many oarsmen and scullers who do not care to compete under present conditions...
...hoped that after organization, when the aim and scope of the new association are fully understood, it may attract the best of the other amateur clubs of the country." (Signed), E. C. STORROW, H. P. WARDWELL, W. P. HENDERSON, Union Boat Club of Boston...
...colorless to invite much interest or remain long in the memory. "The Sensation of Rickerts" is amusing and well handled, though a bit overdrawn here and there; and "His Dress Suit" is a happy-go-lucky, naturally told incident. As the mistaken identity idea is too threadbare to attract attention, "A Hazardous Expedition" amounts to little except as it contains casual references of interest to college men. The side of undergraduate life which is hinted at does not lend itself easily to the average undergraduate...
...features at Soldiers Field which should attract some attention this fall, is the gate-keeper's lodge, just inside the Marshall Newell Gate. Though the building was occupied last spring, it is now open for the first time to the general public, as nearly all the furniture and other equipments are now installed...
Generally, in order to attract capital from men of wealth, who want sure, safe, investments, a new concern issues preferred stock. The condition attached to this stock is that a certain fixed dividend be paid on the preferred stock before the holders of common stock receive any advantage from the profit. Although the common stock is speculative in character it is frequently more remunerative than preferred stock as is seen at present in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company. The proportion of capital of the large combinations, which goes toward the cost of their promotion is an immense...