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Word: clinching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House teams will begin competition shortly after the vacation ends with Eliot House the one to beat. Last year it won softball, baseball, and crew to clinch the Straus Trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Corrals House Volleyball Crown in Finals | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Crocker, who weighed only 155 pounds, was second-string right end on the 1933 squad. He scored a touchdown on a long pass from Danny Wells to clinch the 19 to 6 Crimson triumph over Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Trophy Donated to College | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...last 10 seconds of a five minute overtime period, Jim Downey sank a driving layup shot to clinch a 56 to 55 victory for the freshman basketball team over Yale. The hair-raising finish was typical of the game in which neither team ever had more than a five point lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Quintet Beats Yale, 56-55, In Overtime Play | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...pound class--Long (Y) decisioned Kozol (H), 7-2; 128-pound class--De Bono (Y), decisioned Smith (H), 7-3; 136-pound class--Anderson (Y) decisioned Abboud (H), 4-0; 145-pound class--Clinch (Y) decisioned King (H), 9-2; 155-pound class--Mansell (Y) decisioned Skinner (H), 6-0; 165-pound class--Naffziger (Y) pinned Thompson (H) at 8:27 with a half nelson and crotch; 175-pound class--Claflin (H) pinned Downey (Y) with a half nelson and crotch at 5:52; heavyweight class--Houston (H) decisioned Waterman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Wrestlers Defeated at Yale | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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