Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year all non-European contestants will be barred). Said Gerschweiler: "The best...
...opener yesterday afternoon on Arena ice, the '51 sextet got off to a slow start after a two weeks vacation layoff, but banged in three goals in the second period to clinch the game. Hal Marshall, filling in for Jack Carman on the first line, paced the Crimson attack with two tallies...
Individual brilliance was the keynote last night at the M.I.T. pool as the varsity swimmers took seven of nine firsts to chalk up a 46 to 29 win over the Engineers. Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris, who won their own events and then teamed to clinch the 300-yard medley, stood out among the victors. The Yardling team took the curtain-raiser from its Tech opposite number by a 45 to 21 count...
...best team down, but for three and a half frosty periods yesterday it looked as if that was just what Winthrop House was doing to a sluggish Eliot eleven in the shadow of the Stadium. Then in the dying minutes the undefeated Mastodons exploded for two quick scores to clinch their first inter-House football championship since before...
...thriller, at least offers automobile chases, loud pistol reports, and stony-faced intrigue. Entitled "Second Chance," it concerns a projected million-dollar jewel theft, in the course of which two of the crafty schemers fall in love. They double-cross their accomplices, enabling the movie to end on a clinch between two law-abiding citizens...