Word: bulkiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will TIME [April i] agree that Brooks Brothers' Union generals' uniforms, or for that matter all Union uniforms, particularly privates', were the ugliest, bulkiest misfits of all military history? Far snappier were those of the Confederate officers...
...together again in two-column pages instead of three. Each page of the V-Mail Edition contains about half as many words as a regular TIME page, so each copy runs between 60 and 70 pages of thick photographic paper printed on one side only. The result is the bulkiest of all our 20 editions - as thick-as a ham sandwich...
Biographies. Bulkiest biography published in 1942 was Douglas Southall Freeman's massively academic Lee's Lieutenants ($5), first of a projected three-volume study of the men who fought the battles of the South's lost cause. Most amusing was Hesketh Pearson's G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser...