Word: clinched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...
This belief seems to have been confirmed by a more recent article, a lying smear of organized labor. These are the most recent and the most striking examples of the Satevepost's irresponsible, ultra-reactionary editorial policy. They clinch our belief that the Post, beneath its mask of patriotism, is doing its bit for Hitler...
...slots respectively, lost two close matches to start the singles off poorly, but the next four players took their contest, so that, going into the doubles, the score stood Harvard 4, Dartmouth 2. Nicholl, playing with Frothingham, and Captain Orme Wilson, together with Jenkins, then proceded to clinch the Harvard victory over the Big Green...
After some impromptu introductory remarks, there was a contest to determine her leading man in a skit that led up to a clinch and didn't arrive. Don Cottrell, Andy McCullough, and Joe Minot were chosen to compete in the finals, with Minet the winner and the closest to osculation...
...done with excellent comedy timing, while the two feminine leads, Jacqueline Proctor of Erskine and Edith Bronson of Radcliffe, perform nicely in the two most ordinary parts in the play. Particularly pleasant is the love sequence between these two and Bob Keahey with Miss Bronson in at the clinch...