Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday, Button had already obtained a commanding lead over his nearest contender, Helmut Seibt of Austria, and was picked to clinch the title today...
Dick Button won a unanimous first-place vote from all seven judges for his performance in the compulsory figures yesterday at Paris to virtually clinch his fifth straight world's figure skating championship. Sophomore Dudley Richards, American Junior Champion, placed third in the first day of the competition, which will be decided in the free-skating exhibition tonight...
...varsity "C" has a chance to clinch the league title in their match with--the Chancery Club this afternoon, while the freshmen take to the road, meeting Deer-field today and Williams tomorrow in important tests...
...paintings of Sloan's last 20 years are still unpopular. They lack the unbuttoned ease of his early, reportorial pictures. In age he stuck largely to studio nudes, developed a new and weird technique of circling the painted flesh with hundreds of scratchy red pin stripes to "clinch the form...
...football's Cleveland Browns, 28-0, over Pittsburgh's Steelers to clinch their second straight American Conference title; in Pittsburgh...