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Word: clinchers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-governing "code." While it considered what to do, it got the worst blast of all. In Clifton, N.J., Elementary School Principal Charles M. Sheehan flatly blamed "the late hours kept by children due to television programs" for schoolwork "inferior to my accepted standard." As an anti-TV clincher, Schoolmaster Sheehan announced some damaging statistics: "Last year at this time there were but two failures in one class. This year, in the same class, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Case Against Crime | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...clincher came near the end of the game when center Jim Merkle intercepted a Puritan desperation pass on the Winthrop 35 and ran it over the goal line behind timely blocks by Bill Boucher and Joe Domenie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Continue Undefeated | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...Clincher. In Brighton, England, transport experts from 20 nations, meeting to standardize their obsolete timetables for more efficient, punctual travel, held up their meeting 20 minutes waiting for latecomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...King suggests that instead of frightening the patient and browbeating her into passing up favorite foods, the doctor should let her eat what she wants, soothe her fears and give her "a mature, optimistic orientation." His clincher: uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Happy | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...long ago given up whoopdedo polo. But when things looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Old Horsemen | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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