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Word: clinch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striking with deadly force three times in the first period, the Eliot House football team mixed speed and deception with a liberal amount of luck yesterday afternoon and defeated Adams, 21-0, to clinch the 1949 House football crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Clinches Inter-House Football Crown With 21-0 Rout Over Adams | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

...clinch his point, Poet Ivanissevich concluded with one of his own compositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: No Room | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...deal with General Motors, and another $3,000,000 in contracts with seven other U.S. motormakers for a grand total of 4,800 trucks, buses and tractors. In addition, as soon as a formal peace can be signed with its Arab neighbors, Israel hoped to clinch the Ford plant in Haifa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Israel on Wheels | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...singles were split evenly between the two teams, leaving Dave Aldrich and Peter Blen, and Roger Swanson and Dick Becker, playing numbers two and three doubles, to clinch the match. Both doubles teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Tennis Team Takes 5-3 Win in Deerfield Match | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...show would help clinch Rivera's reputation as the Western Hemisphere's finest living painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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