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Word: clinching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early morning cold hold no qualms for the Winthrop skaters yesterday, as they outscored Lowell, 4 to 2, in a close game at the Boston Skating Club. At the halfway mark, the score was tied at two goals apiece, but the Puritans' forward line countered twice again to clinch the tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Regains First Place Draw In Court League | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

Coach Rene Peroy's fencers carved their way into a 15 1/2 to 11 1/2 victory over Brown last night in Providence. The swordsmen still trailing after the foils event, didn't clinch the meet until they sliced out seven thumping victories with sabers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Come From Behind to Out-Parry Brown | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...messy hotel studio just north of Greenwich Village. He paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone else, they spoil the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Determined Drifter | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Jayvees had to come from behind to down a small but stick Medford squad 5 to 3, with George Lorring and Bill Edvarts notching goals in the final period to clinch things for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling, JV Hockey Squads Trim Nearby High Schools | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...last pre-exam tilt with Brown. In both cases a few individual stars on the opposing side were not sufficient to overcome well-spread Crimson strength. Army, supposedly tough, fell in a minor upset at West Point as several heretofore unheralded performers turned in victories to clinch the meet...

Author: By Charles W. Balley ii, | Title: Quintet Faces Princeton Tomorrow; Swimmers open Term at Annapolis | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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