Word: leet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-known projects in the Geology Department are the seismographs of Professor L. Don Leet. Last Month Leet wrote earthquake history by picking up a dynamite explosion in South Holston, Tennessee--the farthest distance a man-made noise has ever been "heard...
...Tennessee Valley Authority had to touch off 681 tons of TNT before Lect's instruments could feel it, though. The blast ripped out one side of a mountain to supply crushed rock for a TVA dam. Present seismographs, says Leet, have never recorded an atom bomb explosion...
Working in an abandoned garage, Leet has developed a new labor-saving seismograph, which frees geologists from darkrooms and sub-cellar laboratories. Old seismographs recorded on photographic plates; the new one relays earth tremors to a pen-and-paper graph on Leet's desk...
Next year, Mather will give only the second half of Geology 1; Geology 1a is scheduled for L. Don Leet, who also directs the University's Seismograph Station. Even alone, Mather's colorful lectures would make the elementary course in the department worthwhile...
Professor Clyde K. Kluckhohn will take over Anthropology 1b, and Associate Professor Fred C. Whipple will teach Astronomy 1. Professor L. Don Leet will give the first term of Geology 1, replacing Professor Kirtley F. Mather...