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...1.1: In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant inc... ... have been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need... ...tes. This has resulted in thousands of unemployed and underemployed graduate engineers. Using an expert's opinion we study the effect of such unemp... ...xpert spells out the five major concepts relating to the unemployed graduated engineers as E 1 – Frustration E 2 – Unemployment E 3 – ... ...ge i.e., time dependent at each desired time. For the result alone is not the chief criteria in several of the problems. This method / model will e... ... 42. Fuzzy Thought Amplifier. The Fuzzy Cognitive Map Program, Fuzzy Systems Engineering, USA. http://www.fuzzysys.com/ftaprod.html 43. Gel'fand,...

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...ment of their insignificance and impermanence, and had the wherewithal to engineer the construction of their decks of cards into businesses and edifi... ...of her American Indian family of Degenerative Scoliosis, her mother, Big Chiefess Lady Gaga, and the monster, Chief Fucker-- all without any types ... ...this is better than what I had long ago under parental auspices. So says Chiefess Mommy: “You’d forget your own ass if it wasn’t tied onto you;” “... ... “This is my house and if you don’t like it you can leave.” And so says Chief Daddy: “Don’t tell your mother about any of this as she is not too b... ...aughter/father relationship the way we do, for how could she,” and so says Chief Daddy: “There will be no whores living under this roof.” Fucking d...

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...ore intangible, altruistic and ideational. It is more than half a century since Chief Justice Holmes alluded to a marketplace for a free trade in... ...ality is relaxed. The marketing approach implies specification of a product to be engineered in a manner so as to resolve some problem facing targe... ...ble image of an individual or an organization. Thus, while marketing's product is engineered to satisfy needs of potential consumers, publicity as a... ...tional campaigns may be differentiated for each segment. How Many Segments? The chief objective of segmentation is not merely to increase product ... ...government and finally the consumer. Just as no ship can sail smoothly without a chief officer, the channel too, usually operates under a channel ... ...mployment figures and thus provided attractive statistics. Moreover, many saw the chief purpose of government-funded programs as simply to fill ent... ...n-to match the offering with consumer demand. One wants to know in advance how to engineer the offering so that it will best suit the audience for w...

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...grant labourers in rural areas of Tamil Nadu. Thus to be more precise our chief problem is the prediction of the age group which is most affected an... ... In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant increas... ...e been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need of ... ... This has resulted in thousands of unemployed and underemployed graduate engineers. Using an expert’s opinion we study the effect of such unemploye... ... expert spells out the five concepts relating to the unemployed graduated engineers as E 1 – Frustration E 2 – Unemployment E 3 – In... ...ch are bidirectional networks. However we may also use unidirectional BAM chiefly depending on the problems under investigations. We briefly descri... ...l,” SICE Joint Symposium of 15 th System Symposium and 10 th Knowledge Engineering Symposium, (1989) 99-104. 34. Gray N. Powell, Handbook of Gend...

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...The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...ublication The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...in any way. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...nd Nagasaki The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 FOREWORD This report describes the effects ... ...work contributed largely to this report is made to: The Special Manhattan Engineer District Investigating Group, The United States Strategic Bombing ... ...ng of 13 August and arrived in the Marianas on 15 August. On 12 August the Chief of Staff sent the Theater Com- mander the following message: “FOR MAC... ...st, with the Commanding General of the 8th Army; Colonel War- ren, who was Chief of the Radiological Division of the District, arrived on 7 September.... ...ads. A large part of the electric supply was interrupted by the bomb blast chiefly through damage to electric substations and overhead transmission sy... ...ge to the water supply system was reported by the Japanese government; the chief damage was a number of breaks in the large water mains and in almost ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ......................... 57 4 Robert Louis Stevenson RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson INTRODUCTION THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON F... ...an in Ayrshire, and several other lesser places. 5 Records of a Family of Engineers were members of Parliament for Peebles, Stirling, Pittenweem, Kil... ... he returned to the Church of his fathers. August 1786 was the date of his chief advancement, when, having designed a system of oil lights to take the... ...timbers. The author has actually seen a park (Anglice, meadow) paled round chiefly with cedar-wood and mahogany from the wreck of a Honduras-built shi... ...e unwilling witnesses the language alluded to. I fixed upon Mr. Stewart as chief; he hedged. My curiosity increased, and I urged. Then he said, “What ... ...ader to forget that he was, first of all and last of all, an engineer. His chief claim to the style of a mechanical inventor is on account of the Jib ... ...ards, at my grandfather’s suggestion, called in council, with the style of chief engineer. The precise meaning attached to these words by any of the p...

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...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehe...

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...holders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that s... ...n engagement of porcupines. This malignant liquor was com pounded, by the engineer who invented it, of two ingredi ents, which are, gall and coppera... ...themselves or their representatives, for passengers to gaze at; whence the chiefest and largest are removed to certain magazines they call libraries, ... ... thereof. The guardian of the regal library, a person of great valour, but chiefly renowned for his humanity, had been a fierce champion for the Moder... ... Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 8 two of the ancient chiefs who guarded a small pass on the superior rock, but, endeavouring to ... ...t back with him a list of their forces, in all, fifty thousand, consisting chiefly of light horse, heavy armed foot, and mercenaries; whereof the foot... ...dini, Davila, Polydore V ergil, Buchanan, Mariana, Camden, and others. The engineers were commanded by Regiomontanus and Wilkins. The rest was a confu... ... number; Homer led the horse, and Pindar the light horse; Euclid was chief engineer; Plato and Aristotle commanded the bowmen; Herodotus and Livy the ...

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...77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, 170 -- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 189 -- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, 210...

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...e Speckled Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 The Adventure of... ...Doctor, we will begin another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief feature.” The Adventure of the Speckled Band 131 The Adventure o... ...on my conscience.” 152 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb 9 O F ALL the problems which have been submitted to my... ...ome strange creature which he had caged up in my room. 9 “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” The Strand March 1892 pp. 276 288 The Adventure of t... ... side table.” I took it up and glanced at it. “Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic engineer, 1 6A. Victoria Street (3d floor).” That was the name, style, a... ... to him myself.” “I should be immensely obliged to you.” The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb 155 “We’ll call a cab and go together. We shall just b... ...Holmes second son of the Duke of Balmoral. Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846. He’s forty one years of age, whi...

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...as under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...s depart- ment commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as gen- eral-in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arr... ...commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with refer- ence to disobedience of orders, and reported the eviden... ... military operations of the year, detailed in the report of the General in Chief. 2.The organiza- tion of colored persons into the war service. 3.The ... ...ents of the Quartermaster- General, Commissary-General, Paymaster-General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, and Surgeon-General. It has appeared... ...he Quartermaster- General, Commissary-General, Paymaster-General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, and Surgeon-General. It has appeared impossib... ...Lincoln: V ol Seven training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. The Naval Academy is rendering signal serv... ...shed little can be done anywhere what is called reconstruction. Hence our chiefest care must still be directed to the Army and Navy who have thus far... ...nts. At the request of the States of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, a competent engineer has been authorized to make a survey of the river San Juan and the...

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...werful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency b...

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...tive part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those ea... .... So I take it that the Council of an ideal League of Nations must consist chiefly of the representatives of the great belligerent powers, and that th... ...some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect of the American Presidential election is that as the old singl... ...cliques against the general welfare. In such offences Germany has been the chief of sinners, but which among the belliger- ent nations can throw the f... ...tate is armed against mad, ferocious, and criminal men. Now, there are two chief arguments, running one into the other, for the necessity of merging o... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...tor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reaping the Whirlwind 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea 30. Closing in...

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...ional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reaping the Whirlwind 27. The ... ... three, made advances towards conversation. Throwing out his lines for the Chief of the im- portant tribe, while addressing himself to his own compani... ...discomfort. That he trusted (by this time he had se- cured the eyes of the Chief, and addressed him) he might be permitted to express his hope that sh... ...ng made the journey. ‘My daughter, I am obliged to you, sir,’ returned the Chief, ‘is quite restored, and has been greatly interested.’ ‘New to mounta... ...rhaps?’ said the insinuating traveller. ‘New to—ha—to mountains,’ said the Chief. ‘But you are familiar with them, sir?’ the insinuating traveller ass... ...sions on the map of the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, w...

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...e long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one?s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o?clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the interval could be only an eternity of pleasure. The pe...

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...the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five... ...oth sexes, kept or rather let go, by a demonstra tive lady of whom Isabel’s chief recollection was that her hair was fastened with strange bedroomy c... ...yes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will s... ...nes of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should... ...re part of the general joke. They might well indeed with Ralph have been the chief cause of the want of seriousness marking his view of a world in whi... ...ent of his hopes, the harsh criticism passed upon him by Ralph Touchett. The chief impression produced on Isabel’s spirit by this criticism was that t...

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...r, his comb, his sleep, his dreams, his anger, the mutual anger of several chiefs, his food, his pleasure in eating, the food and eating of his pi- ge... ...e demigods is quite a branch of knowledge, and he who goes to visit a high chief does well to make sure of the competence of his inter- preter. To com... ...ure, the same word signifies the watching of a virgin and the warding of a chief; and the same word means to cherish a chief and to fondle a favourite... ...in a weak sense) is held on good behaviour. Compare the case of a Highland chief: born one of the great ones of his clan, he was sometimes appointed i... ...ef: born one of the great ones of his clan, he was sometimes appointed its chief officer and conventional father; was loved, and re- spected, and serv... ... came to the States, found 28 A Footnote to History employment as a civil engineer, visited Cuba, took a sub- contract on the Panama canal, caught th... ...ety. Upon this catalogue of “ifs” Kane staked his all. He signalled to the engineer for every pound of steam – and at that moment (I am told) much of ... ... sole survivor of thirteen sail. He thanked his men, and in particular the engineers, in a speech of unusual feeling 124 A Footnote to History and be...

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...ad been still living, I would have written to tell him that, for, me, it had come true; and I thought, forbye, that, if the great powers go on as they... ...enry—Henry has gone down to town or I could not be writing to you— this were the hour of his English lesson else, when he learns what he calls ‘long e... ...is archi- tectural, creative—to get this stuff jointed and moving. If I can do that, I will trouble you for style; anybody might write it, and it woul... ..., all good I potently believe, and given up, as a decep- tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at... ...check, beyond a very rough one; marching in with a cloudy brow, and the day-book under his arm; tackling decimals, com- ing with cases of conscience—h... ...feature: the argument of the pastors was handed in in the form of a fictitious narrative of the voyage of one Mr. Pye, an English traveller, and his ... ...lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney—just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago; I should ha... ...d there now some years; and scarce ever seen a ship except in port or close by; I think twice. It was the hurricane season besides, and hurricane wate... ...VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish ...

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... dictator, together with the lives of a few Sulaco officials—the political chief, the director of the customs, and the head of police—belonging to an ... ... European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who ra... ... the Italian and Basque workmen who rallied faithfully round their English chiefs. The Company’s lightermen, too, natives of the Republic, behaved ver... ...xposed to in all their wanderings, he had turned to the picture of his old chief, first and only, then laid his hand on his wife’s shoulder. The child... ... if referring all his quick, fleeting thoughts to the pic- ture of his old chief on the wall. Even when he was cooking for the “Signori Inglesi”—the e... ... chief on the wall. Even when he was cooking for the “Signori Inglesi”—the engineers (he was a famous cook, though the kitchen was a dark place)—he wa... ...e hens made off in all directions, with immense strides; if there were any engineers from 28 Nostromo up the line staying in Sulaco, a young English ... ... on the inflamed language of proc- lamations. He had never parted from the chief of his choice—the fiery apostle of independence—keeping by his side i... ...ountains in a ramshackle diligencia, mainly for the purpose of meeting his engineer-in-chief engaged in the final survey of the road. For all the indi...

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...i- tional influence to Veronique’s salon, which was now visited by all the chief persons in the society of the town, in conse- 41 Balzac quence of ce... ...ll versed in law or gifted with an intelligent mind. The following are the chief proofs the prosecution were prepared to present, and they are, as is ... ...—taken apart from all Christian in- terest, though that, of course, is the chief object of the Church—that the clergy are always distressed by a failu... ...road, stands Montegnac, at the foot of a hill, as its name designates, the chief town of a canton or district in the Haute-Vienne. The hill is part of... ...le river, along the bank of which runs the country road which connects the chief town of the arrondissement with the prefecture. Like all the villages... ... discovery about the torrent of the Gabou, and urged him to select an able engineer, such as she had already asked him to procure for her. The next da... ... right to choose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mining, ... ...t marvels of it. I entered the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees; I was a pupil-engineer. I studied the science of construction, and how ardently! I am sur... ...studies won for me, I was made, in 1828, when I was twenty-five years old, engineer-in- ordinary. I was sent, as you know, to a sub-prefecture, with a...

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...burning. They were Mr. Fogg’s usual partners at whist: An- drew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a b... ...hich to traverse it. The Mongolia, thanks to the vigorous exertions of the engineer, seemed likely, so rapid was her speed, to reach her destination c... ...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...gradually annexed province after province, purchasing them of the na- tive chiefs, whom it seldom paid, and appointed the gover- nor-general and his s... ...ly crossing India in a railway train. The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee... ...s, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It... ...the kingdom of the Nizam. It was there- abouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stran- glers, held his sway. These ruffians, united by a... ... with a red beard, flushed face, and broad shoulders, who seemed to be the chief of the band, raised his clenched fist to strike Mr. Fogg, whom he wou... ...s only a meeting assembled for an election.” “The election of a general-in-chief, no doubt?” asked Mr. Fogg. “No, sir; of a justice of the peace.” Phi...

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...d with her from the Sanjowlie road to the turning below the Com- mander-in-Chief’s house as I might walk by the side of any living woman’s ‘rickshaw, ... ...amid a world of ghosts.” There had been a garden-party at the Commander-in-Chief’s, and we two joined the crowd of homeward-hound folk. As I saw them ... ...and pity led to a long conversation, in the course of which he put the fat Engineer-Sahib’s tragic death in three separate stations—two of them fifty ... ...-n’-pearl, I do not see why Jukes’s tale should not be true. He is a Civil Engineer, with a head for plans and distances and things of that kind, and ... ... boots. At the time it did not strike me as at all strange that I, a Civil Engineer, a man of thirteen years’ standing in the Service, and, I trust, a... ...n their lairs. Personally I am not of an imaginative temperament,—very few Engineers are,—but on that occasion I was as completely 46 The Phantom Ric... ...e Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories with private memoranda relating chiefly to three persons— a Mrs.L. Singleton, abbreviated several times to ... ... with two of the Army, teaching the men how to drill; and a thundering big Chief comes across the snow with kettledrums and horns twanging, because he... ...mile across the snow and wings one of them. Then he sends a message to the Chief that, unless he wished to be killed, he must come and shake hands wit...

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...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ard...

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.... INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John ... ...son about the year 1588, or early in 1589. This forest was adjacent to the chief haunts of the MacGregors, or a particular race of them, known by the ... ...nfruin. I am informed from the authority of John Gregorson, Esq., that the chieftain so named was dead nearly a century before the battle in ques- tio... ... added to Sergeant More M’Alpin’s distress upon the occasion was, that the chief by whom this change had been effected, was, by tradition and common o... ...until his dying day, no man heard him mention his selfish and hard-hearted chieftain. After giving a day to sad recollections, the hardy spirit which ... ...situation as when they awaked the strain of an Irish 185 Sir Walter Scott engineer officer, who had been employed in converting them into practicable...

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...brella of the very best quality, but generally unrolled. Y oung Jukes, the chief mate, attending his commander to the gang- way, would sometimes ventu... ...ormance with a face of such portentous gravity, that Mr. Solomon Rout, the chief engineer, smoking his morning cigar over the skylight, would turn awa... ...e with a face of such portentous gravity, that Mr. Solomon Rout, the chief engineer, smoking his morning cigar over the skylight, would turn away his ... ...stand it: I’ll throw up the billet. Don’t it make you sick, Mr. Rout?” The chief engineer only cleared his throat with the air of a man who knows the ... ...it: I’ll throw up the billet. Don’t it make you sick, Mr. Rout?” The chief engineer only cleared his throat with the air of a man who knows the value ... ...m’ dis- tressful sight,” he said, meekly. Later in the day he accosted the chief engineer with a confi- dential, “Here, let me tell you the old man’s ... ...- tressful sight,” he said, meekly. Later in the day he accosted the chief engineer with a confi- dential, “Here, let me tell you the old man’s latest... ... only no one on board knew how chatty he could be pen in hand, because the chief engineer had enough imagination to keep his desk locked. His wife rel... ...no one on board knew how chatty he could be pen in hand, because the chief engineer had enough imagination to keep his desk locked. His wife rel- ishe...