Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal and iron mines are a second national resource which should attract American capital. Large deposits of the metals are known to exist, but, comparatively, they are un exploited. The Filipinos have been primarily an agricultural people and have been uninterested in the existence of these mineral deposits. Not until the acquisition of the islands by the United States in 1898, has our people realized the extent of these natural resources...
...imagination of Edmond Rostand's genius. It makes no pretense of credibility; it is frankly a love story with plenty of swordplay and roses. Cyrano, himself, is an individual whose enormous heart is only exceeded in magnitude by his nose. Such a nose has Cyrano that he simply cannot attract affection from his heart's desire, Roxane. So he fights and laughs and sings his way through the entertaining history to a conclusion which, though well known for a quarter of a century, must remain undivulged in deference to critical ethics...
...office rates reached the high limit long ago, that any increase would cause a disproportionate falling off in attendance. Occupants of orchestra and box chairs at the Metropolitan or Chicago Opera Company are moneyed people. But concert halls are filled with comparatively poor folk, and simple esthetics do not attract the wealthy strongly enough to fill high-priced stalls...
...series of Steinert concerts opened auspiciously yesterday afternoon with the concert of the New York Philharmonic Society in Symphony Hall. Usually concerts in Boston attract no large audiences unless the performer be an Italian singer or a Russian violinist but the number present yesterday at a really brilliant concert showed that Boston has also its music lovers. Thus does the Steinert management continue its tradition of excellence...
...Whitbeck vs. Stralem tennis match this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock is the first match of the Union tennis tournament to attract genuine interest of spectators and fans. Both are seeded men in this tournament, and in the order given by Coach Harry Cowles, Whitbeck is number one, Stralem number three...