Word: leet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokio dispatches, published on the front pages of many American newspapers, to the effect that the recent eruption of Asama-Yama, Japan's largest active volcano, was a catastrophe, were denounced as Axis propaganda designed to foster false optimism among the United Nations by L. Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology...
...Japs are probably laughing up their large kimono sleeves at the gullibility of the American press, which fell in line with this propaganda scheme by printing the catastrophe story as an item of fact," Leet asserted...
...other sections of the department. Meneralogy 2 is better than average as is also Professor Leet's Seismology...
...Normal expectancy doesn't lead us to hope for a major quake near any large population centers," said Professor Leet. "The Japs are well able to take care of themselves, since they have so many every year." Reasonably large quakes come once in three years, on the average, but well-trained rescue crews are on the spot in "a matter of hours", and rehabilitation goes on at the same time as does careful study of the situation...
Besides being a huge theatre of war, the Western Pacific area is one of the most seismic in the world, according to Professor Leet, and "it would be a miracle if there was no sizeable quake somewhere within the vast area during the six months." The damage would not be great, however, for there are no really large centers that might be affected. In any case the damage could be repaired before it seriously disturbed the war effort...