Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perilman came in behind Schellstede to give the Crimson a sweep in the 200-yard butterfly. Only in the dives did the varsity show poorly, taking a third place. The Crimson then surged back to clinch the meet with a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard breaststroke by the strong team of Jim Stanley and Douglas McCartney...
...present Winthrop holds a one-half game lead, but they must either beat or tie Dunster tomorrow to clinch the championship...
...fast-improving varsity cross-country team notched its second straight win yesterday by scoring a clean sweep of the first three places in a triangular meet with Boston University and Providence College. To clinch the victory, the Crimson harriers then placed seven of their runners within the top eleven finishers to register a winning team score of 21 points to 36 for Providence and a gigantic...
...YORK--Crafty Warren Spahn tossed a two-hitter and left the New York Yankees cliff-hanging by their fingernails Sunday, with his Milwaukee Braves needing only one more victory to clinch their second straight World Series...
Watermelons on ice, fiddle music by the Clinch Mountain Clan and country songs by Grand Ole Opry stars brought out the voters 500 strong one hot night last week in East Ridge, Tenn. (1950 pop. 9,645). After a sample of the most lavish Democratic primary campaign that local politicians could remember, Millionaire Segregationist Prentice Cooper, 62, three-time Governor (1939-45) and Harry Truman's Ambassador to Peru (1946-48), poured it on incumbent U.S. Senator Albert Gore. "He is drawing $75 a day to represent the people of Tennessee," bellowed Cooper in a stomping cadence...