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Word: clinch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Mark Tuttle, despite a heavy cold, turned in a creditable 19:52 performance in finishing second, while Charlie Atwell came from far back to notch third place for the Crimson. Tufts placed four men behind Atwell in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th places, though, to clinch the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS LOSE RACE TO JUMBOS BY 23-33 | 10/3/1944 | See Source »

...score. Bob Rayle swept through Jack Thomas, 6-0 6-3, and Tom Ellis and Bill Mayleas each took their respective opponents, Jim Eolls and Corydon Dunham, by a 6-0, 6-1 margin. The three doubles matches were won by similar scores, to clinch the second victory of the summer season for the tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM TOPS BOWDOIN | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

This afternoon at 3:15 o'clock the Funsters will play Company D for the baseball championship of the College. Wednesday the D-men took the measure of Company A, 8 to 0, to clinch the Navy League baseball crown. On the mound were Dana Bresnahan for Company D and Tom Reeder for Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER WINS INTRAMURALS | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

These were sufficient reasons to clinch slight, earnest Ernie Pyle's claim to the title of No. 1 war correspondent. But last week, as nearly every week, he provided another. Arriving in London from the Anzio beachhead, he gave his 11,500,000 readers a notable example of his warm, richly simple style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To & from Ernie | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, named by Vermont's pro-Willkie Governor Wills as one of the "four-year locusts of Republican politics" (TIME, Jan. 17), retorted last week with charges of a "Willkie blitz." Willkie managers, cried he, have tried to clinch the nomination for their man "before anyone else had a chance to be heard," by "false claims" that Willkie has 300 to 500 delegates already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action v. Waiting | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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