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HAVING read with interest the correspondence in recent issues of Nature on the suitability of the expression 'soil' mechanics, I am moved to express the hope that the writers will be more successful than I have been in securing the adoption of a better term.
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BOSWELL, P. 'Soil' Mechanics. Nature 154, 119 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154119b0
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