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Word: tildenized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...TILDEN, ON VERGE OF DEFEAT, RALLIES MAGNIFICENTLY?TILDEN COMES BACK FROM BRINK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Garden Hose" At Fort Tilden (near Manhattan) anti-aircraft gunners prepared to test a new "sightless" 50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun. Instead of aiming and firing at the target by the aid of sights, a gunner firing the new weapon simply turns it like a garden hose upon aircraft overhead and sprays them with a stream of 450 bullets per minute, every fifth bullet being a flaming "tracer bullet" which indicates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Garden Hose | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Champion William Tilden gave a lesson to his partner, 17-year old "Sandy" Weiner. Griffin and Johnston profited by the lesson, took the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Doubles | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Engraven on the bowl are the names of Ichaya Kumagae (1916), R. Norris Williams (1917), William T. Tilden (1919), Clarence J. Griffin (1920), Howard Kinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Tennis | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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