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...Odell was one of the group which made the attempt on Everest in 1924. Odell and Brown have both climbed in the Alps with undergraduates in the Club and several years ago were elected honorary members. The other two men who make up the party are Peter Lloyd and Tilman, both of England...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...Coolidge has no authority over the grinding clangor which issues from his tower one Sunday every month; the Corporation has wisely kept for itself the power to decree the playing of the bells. So far it has not invited A. Tilman Merritt, instructor in Music, to play extemporaneously. The chances are that the scheme will die a Harvard death, buffeted from official to official...
After the compromise had passed a second reading-which virtually assures its final passage-in the House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...
...already beginning to show characteristics of his father." Strychnine, antidote for an ominous heredity, had twisted the limbs and belly 'of the male child, 18 months old-had screwed the face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead, face down on a soiled rug, while the breath of a spring evening ruffled her skirt and played with the fringe of the curtain. Clutched in her hand was a copy of Ibsen's A Doll's House...