Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Hagen excitedly chewed a cigaret on the sideline, Sarazen heroically lifted his ball safely over the bunker to the green, halved the hole. He halved the next one, too, then drove calmly between the dunes, pitched to the green, holed out in 4 to equal Alliss and clinch the Ryder Cup. Two more U. S. victories brought the final score...
...decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit had and took opportunities to score twice more, once in the second period, again in the third, to clinch the game (3-to-0) and series...
...Rocky Mountain Conference, also divided into two sections, last week's biggest games were Colorado, Eastern division leader all season, v. Colorado College. By winning twice, 39-to-31, 35-to-32, Colorado got a chance to clinch the division title against Denver this week. Western division winner is sure to be either Utah or Utah State which also play each other this week, in Salt Lake City...
...basketball team, which has been coming back into its own after a mid season letdown, has won its first victory over Yale, and this week they will stand by, playing only Brown, before facing Columbia and Yale in a final whirlwind finish, attempting to clinch the second place they have squeezed into...
Seldom has Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing...