Word: fussier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NACA says that its quiet prop is more efficient than faster, noisy propellers. (The plane equipped with it flew 5 m.p.h. faster.) NACA hopes that airplane manufacturers will adopt the design, and thus make small airfields acceptable in nicer and fussier neighborhoods. It even hints darkly of legislation making the quiet prop mandatory...
...Navy and Marine Corps are fussier, assign only one man to a lower...
...made frantic efforts to get an exit visa so that he could take his family to Switzerland, scene of his World War I exile, birthplace of Ulysses. Thanks to influential friends (especially in the U. S. embassy), he finally procured a visa from Vichy. But the Swiss Government was fussier. At one point it refused to admit Joyce on the claim that he was a Jew. Then it demanded a $7,000 bond. The mayor of Zurich got the sum reduced to $3,500, which some Swiss friends got together. But on the day the Swiss entrance visa arrived...