Word: leet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Leet saw a few more scientifically interesting things while the earth trembled, but he can't tell about all of them yet. Says he: "The Army security regulations have me shell-shocked...
Last week it was finally admitted: the atomic bomb proved a seismological smash-hit. It shook the earth for 20 seconds, and some of the waves it started were entirely new to seismologists. Professor Leet calls them "hydrodynamic waves." While they were passing, the particles of earth moved up, forward, down and back, very much like particles of water on the surface of a wave-tossed...
...just finished making a new portable seismograph, designed to record the earth vibrations caused by dynamite explosions. That was last spring. Like most Americans, Harvard's Professor L. Don Leet had never heard of the Manhattan Project. But in June, the professor was tapped lightly on the shoulder and spirited away to New Mexico. There his new gadget went to work recording the biggest man-made explosion in history...
...Nipponese must also enjoy the tendency among wishful-thinking, but not too well informed Americans, to believe that the Japanese Islands are one gigantic hotbed of potentially destructive volcanoes," said Leet. "In reality, this latest eruption is only one phase of a long chain of volcanic activity in Japan which dates from 1908," the seismologist explained...
...Leet stated, Asama, Japan's most treacherous volcano, erupted violently with disastrous effects, and it has been constantly active ever since. Consequently there is no reason to believe, much as we would like to, that this eruption is a prelude to a period of menacing volcanic activity in the enemy's camp, the professor concluded...