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With this family backgroun(l, and the experience of helping his father build a summer house on a steep slope on Puget Sound, Jim acquired a taste for the branch of civil engineering later known as geotechnics, a taste that led him into a career that he found totally satisfying. An only chilcl, Jim lived with his mother after his father died when Jim was still in high school.
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Bureau of Reclamation, where he analyzed the bureau's pioneering observations of the pore pressures that developed in recently constructed embankment clams. In 1953 Jim began his long career with the firm now known as Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers of New York City, whose roots originated with Daniel E
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He served on numerous consulting boards for subway projects, the Superconducting Super-Collider, and the Channel Tunnel. Jim was active in the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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He could speak authoritatively on Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, on the engineering accomplishments of the Roman Legions, and on the influence of the terrain on the battles of the American Revolution and the Civil War. Yet, his main interest was in the history of the British Army, from the War of the Roses through World War II.
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