Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier the same year, the Jubilee boosters combined business with pleasure in sponsoring a kissing derby which caught even the Watch and Ward off balance. Clinch totals ran up as high as 26 straight at Wellesley, while one speed demon bussed 15 debs in three minutes at a Brattle Street tea dance...
First team to clinch a House title this winter, the Adams squash squad will accompany the Lowell five on the jaunt to New Haven, tackling the formidable Eli champions...
...wrong for the runner-up in the present U.T. combo has it all over the Betty Hutton opus, despite her energetic vocalizing of "That Little Dream Got Nowhere." This little picture gets nowhere at all, and might better be called "Cross Your Heart and Hope" that the last clinch is over in short order...
...Mailmen gossiped that Owen's promotion was plotted by Ann Rothermere, who, keeps a bright and calculating eye on her easygoing husband's affairs. The Rothermeres had paved the way for the change by a complicated bit of high finance. They spent some $3,000,000 to clinch their shaky hold on the Mail by buying out the shares held by London's tabloid Mirror, and trading off their own shares in the Mirror...
...collapsing grandstand had interrupted the Wisconsin-Purdue game at half-time (TIME, March 10), so a playoff of the second half was ordered. Wisconsin, which could clinch the title by winning, had to begin last week's half-game with its star, Walt Lautenbach, already four-fifths of the way out on fouls...