Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's quiz programs are depressing, wrote the New York Post's radio reporter Paul Denis last week. Reason: most of the contestants show "appalling ignorance." To clinch his case, he described one quiz show on which all contestants were asked who is the President of France. Wrote Denis solemnly: "No one knew, although the name of Paul Ramadier has been on the front pages for months...
...baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...
...Blue must now win two of their remaining three games--two with Princeton and one more with the Crimson--to clinch the E.I.L., title. Yesterday afternoon's victory was Quinn's fifth consecutive win in League competition this year...
...Elis, with a league record of six victories and two losses, can clinch the title if they win a majority of their four remaining games with Harvard and Princeton, while Coach Adolph Samborski '25, in his first year as head coach of the Crimson nine, can lead his charges to the pennant if his Varsity takes both of its games with Yale, scheduled for today and June 18, with the latter clash at New Haven...
Once, as the frightful sound bellowed louder, White's fingers froze to the control valve. He forgot what he was doing, or why. So did all the others present. For five minutes they stood paralyzed until an outsider ran in and broke the clinch...