Word: leet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rescue of these campanies has come L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology and director of the University seismograph station. Leet has spent 15 years in research on the intensity of vibrations and the damage that they...
According to Leet, the vibrations set up around a house in Cincinnati, for example, due to a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, N. C., would be much greater than those produced by a passing truck or by dynamiting in a quarry only a few miles away...
...Leet has found that most of the vibrations in the ground and in buildings come from sources that people do not expect, and the majority of industrial detonations produce tremors too small to do any damage to nearby dwellings. By use of a relatively new instrument, the Leet Portable Seismograph, actual measurements of the intensity of industrial vibrations at varying distances from their source have been made. The net result has been of great value to the blasting companies and quarry-owners who, up to the present, had not known just how much damage their blasts have done...
...American League's Ted Williams a chance at one. It came in the eighth inning, with two on. It floated up, as advertised. Lanky Williams stepped into it, put his powerful wrists into the swing at the right moment, just like a golfer. The ball sailed 380 leet into the right field bull pen for a home run, his second of the afternoon. It was the first time anybody had ever smacked Rip's ephus ball for a homer...
Erwin N. Griswold, professor of Law, was voted vice-president of the Social Arts Department of the group while Donald Scott '00, Peabody Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, was picked as vice-president of the Humanities area. The members chose L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology, as corresponding secretary and Taylor Starck, professor of German, as editor...