Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard team had a four point lead over the Lincoin's Inn Society, its nearest rival, and needed to win but one match to clinch the title...
...result of the squash matches in Class A on Saturday, the University's claim to the state championship is more secure than ever before. Harvard must win but one match in the meet with the Harvard Club of Boston next Saturday to clinch the title. This development came when the B. A. A. lost four of its matches to the Union Boat Club Saturday and was thereby eliminated as a contender for the championship...
...played, the Pennsylvania eleven is almost certain of the championship this year. A 3-2 victory over Princeton last week was the crucial game, putting Pennsylvania into a tie for first place with the Tigers. Pennsylvania must only win or tie either of its remaining two games to clinch the championship...
Pictures are drawn for the avid imaginations of magazine readers of tiny citizens absurdly caparisoned in velvet and plumes waiting daily for a director who requires the patter of little feet about the house to motivate his final clinch. Though there are laws which insist upon the education of movie children, we are led to believe that the education is scattered thinly through sessions before the blinding Kleig lights and interrupted by the hammering of carpenters and the yammering of stars...
...hands with Capital against all forms of socialism and lends its voice to the cry, "Keep politics out of business". In taking the part of evolution against revolution, the American Federation of Labor derives its non-partisan policy by logical deduction. The proofs which Mr. Woll bring forward to clinch his argument against participation in politics by Labor are in reality defenses of the laissez-faire policy as opposed to an overturn of the present order and establishment of state ownership. In England where Labor has elicited government aid, the wheels of industry have certainly been clogged. And when each...