Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of the Crimson golf season, attained only last week at the Yale match, has passed. The squad needs now two more wins to clinch a winning record for the season, and will attempt to get them both this afternoon, when it meets B.C. and Williams at the Charles River Golf Course...
Straus South can clinch the freshman intramural race by picking up only 100 additional points during the spring sports season which begins next week...
Filling a vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Canal Zone), President Eisenhower last week tapped a New Orleans corporation lawyer whose facility at law helped Ike clinch the 1952 Republican nomination. To the Senate for confirmation he sent the name of John Minor Wisdom, 51, Louisiana's Republican national committeeman. A lifetime Republican but no politician until 1951, Lawyer Wisdom (specialty: antitrust legislation) recruited Louisiana Republicans and Democrats alike for Ike, saw a delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials...
However, this should not be the case as the varsity will be all out tonight to clinch its third Ivy crown in a row. In the last meeting of the two teams, the Crimson trampled the Tigers 9 to 1 at Princeton as Bobby Cleary had his most productive night of the year, scoring eight points. Princeton does not have a particularly effective defense, and its goalie, captain Dave Robinson, is not of the same caliber as the one who plagued the Crimson last Saturday night...
...Virtually clinch the Crimson's fourth consecutive Ivy League title (one short of Dartmouth's record of five...