Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early third quarter Deacon drive was halted on the ten-yard stripe, but Kirkland started a last offensive with another Cushman-to-Wills pass, good for 20 yards. Three plays later Alan P. O'Kelly '38 ran 25 yards to clinch the game for the new title-holders. The kick failed...
...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
Captain Dick Maguire's pennant-bound Crimson baseball team needs a League victory over Dartmouth here tomorrow or one at the Bulldog's expense next week to clinch Harvard's first Eastern championship. The Green have a mathematical chance to tie if they take their remaining three games while the Mitchellmen lose a trio...
Than normal, two-fisted, out-of-doors- loving Clark Gable, no man might sympathize more with Lawyer Drinker. Breaking out of a clinch before the cameras with Jeannette MacDonald last week in Hollywood, able Clark Gable declared: "Picturegoers don't want performances in which the actor mugs all over the screen. ... I mean, lingering embraces and prolonged osculation are no longer necessary...
...clinch the seriousness of this possible transition Dr. Affleck compared a group of Johns Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being...