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...When a Man Is in a Battle." Eisenhower's hands were red and swollen from shaking hands with delegates. That was his main task: to meet delegates, explain himself and his ideas. In one week Ike talked personally to nearly 500 delegates from 19 states. No sooner had the general and Mamie returned from Abilene to New York than the delegates began arriving. All day for four days, a Negro porter pulled open the heavy, iron-grilled door of Eisenhower's residence on Morningside Heights, near Columbia University. On the first day it was Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut...
...members who have joined in the last two days have swollen the club's membership...
...Poet Pound meant tumefied, i.e., swollen...
...thus the fattest target possible should allied airmen ever be allowed to cross the Yalu. Mukden, its population now swollen to more than 3,000,000, grinds out lathes, shapers, planers, boring mills, presses, air compressors, electrical motors and transformers for all of China...
...Machines. For his stockholders, Watson calculated that an investor who bought 100 shares of I.B.M. for $2,750 in 1914, and exercised all subsequent purchase rights, would have spent a total of $6,364, would have got cash dividends to date of $153,404, and would now own stock (swollen by splits and stock dividends to 2,894.14 shares) worth...