Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there is no cable line in the little village. . . . There are no telephones." Pictures of the sextuplets Jean-Pierre, Jean-Paul, Jean-Marc, Jean-Luc, Jean-Marie and Jean-Claude Vicogne were published to clinch the yarn's authenticity...
...Colleen", does not realize that six and nine make 15 until Ruby Keeler, of the baby voice and muscular legs, reminds him of that fact. From this start a beautiful friendship grows until we find these two winsome lovers, Donald and Colleen, united after tremendous difficulties in the same clinch which so pleased old maids and unrequited lovers in "Forty-Second Street", "Annapolis Farewell", and "The Gold Diggers...
...confident contingent of 17 men, a team rated far ahead of their opponents, who have been dogged by injuries for the past few weeks. If the Crimson wins tonight it will be the first series which Harvard has ever taken in two straight, and, what is more, it will clinch for the Moseleymen the championship of the Quadrangular League, and a reputation as the best Harvard team in years. Bu it will be no giveaway, as those who follow Harvard-Yale hockey fortunes well know, and fans who go to the Arena in New Haven tonight at 8 o'clock...
...picture by one means of another all is made safe for the inevitable honeymoon or whatever does happen after that final clinch...
...Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs of that port, had returned from a trip to Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands in mid-Pacific, had refused to allow his subordinates to inspect his luggage on the ground that he had not been outside the U. S. This gesture was supposed to clinch U. S. title to three tiny specks of land spang on the equator and almost midway between the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New Zealand...