Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roughly Speaking ends with the beginning of the Third Term. Once Mrs. Pierson returned to Quincy to see her father's house: "It was just the same! I couldn't believe my eyes. . . . The widow's walk on the roof where we used to go to watch fires . . . the opaque glass in the windows of the servants' dining room . . . the summerhouse with the well in it ... the drooping cut-leaf maple. It was all just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing...
...Parker House Roof was well crowded with Officer Candidates and Midshipmen from Chase Hall who generously contributed to making the dance a huge success...
Second to receiving his gold bars, the students at Mellon Hall look forward to their Graduation Dance. To them it means the end of three months of continual studying and preparation for the duties and responsibilities of an officer. The Parker House Roof will again be the scene of their revelry, and if last Saturday's affairs was a pre-vue of the coming dance, then there is no doubt of its being a tremendous success...
...Pros. The pro-subsidy argument is short & sweet. When there is plenty of money but a scarcity of goods, prices will go through the roof unless controls are applied. The controls must not cut down production or squeeze too many people out of business. But when selling prices are rigid, while costs rise, businessmen are squeezed hard. Then, argue the subsidizers, the only way to prevent price inflation, without interfering with production, is for the Government to pay the difference between cost (plus a reasonable profit) and selling price...
Tomorrow evening the two classes 9.45 and 1.44, will meet at a dance on the Parker Bense Roof, where a group on the 150 selected females will attempt to get their minds off work. The dance was arranged to enable the incoming students to become aquainted with the locale of their assignment...