Tilden's

He was up 5-4 in the fourth, and at 15-30 on del Potro's serve, Federer needed only two more points to equal Tilden's record.

Del Potro stuns Federer in five sets to win his first U.S. Open 2009

Freeman Tilden's "A World in Debt" (privately printed, 1983) is a quirky, elegant, long out-of-print treatise by a non-economist on an all-too-timely subject.

The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010

"The time is right to implement a succession plan that's been in the works for several years," Mr. Ayer said, noting Mr. Tilden's strong leadership in navigating a challenging period for commercial aviation.

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And like many other under-performing schools, Tilden's attendance is low - hovering around 50 percent in early April, according to school records.

Vadim Lavrusik: A Race for Diplomas Before Brooklyn's Tilden High Closes for Good 2010

In addition to the two on-court competitors, a third player looms large in "A Terrible S.lendor": Bill Tilden, a tennis superstar of the 1920s who had done much to popularize the sport in America but who had also long feuded with the tennis bureaucracy in the U.S. The American tennis establishment, Mr. Fisher says, was leery of Tilden's off-court flamboyance and rumors about his sexual tendencies.

Playing in the Dark Jay Jennings 2009

So it was the Democrats who screwed up Reconstruction by insisting that the northern armies leave under the Rutherford Hayes administration as part of the trade-off since Tilden's had won a plurality of votes.

"It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley's donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief." Ann Althouse 2008

A portion of Tilden's fortune was left for the creation of a free public library (evidently my family did NOT inherit any of it); that bequest was merged with others in 1895 to establish the New York Public Library.

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Tilden's Democrats in the House mounted a filibuster, so Hayes's Republicans agreed to remove from the South the federal troops that were enforcing Reconstruction.

Mark Twain's "Skeleton Novelette" 2001

She sat back and enjoyed Tilden's witty, acerbic commentary on the current crop of Rethwellan nobility, as his wife added sweetly pointed asides and Jadrek commented on the lineage (or lack of it) where each was concerned.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

Tilden's chief Midwinter presents to all of the children consisted of one Brindle Mastiff puppy and one Arborn Hunting Cat kitten for each child old enough to appreciate and care for their pets.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998