Word: leet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...
...Harvard's internationally known earthquake authority, Lewis Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment on Landsberg's statement, but one of his assistants indicated that Professor Leet did not think that the U. S. could count on a Japanese earthquake...
...paper read yesterday to the American Geophysical Union, L. Don Leet, director of the Harvard University Seismograph Station, revealed his entirely new earthquake theory which explains for the first time, shocks originating miles beneath the earth's crust...
...discovery that rocks under great pressure will break as well as flow, which is the basis of the new hypothesis, was made by David T. Griggs, a junior fellow at Harvard, Dr. Leet said...
...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...