Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pinned up a penciled notice on the front door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It's mine. I'm a soldier." Vronderon was Lazanis' home, which he had not seen in four years. The house was all he had left: his wife and children had been carried off by the retreating guerrillas. Lazanis told a visiting U.N. Balkans Commission team that 'his family was "over there," in Albania. "Please," he begged, "can't you get them back...
...rationing, ended by the Labor government in a burst of optimism (TIME, May 2), was clamped back on last week. The planners had figured wrong: Britain was hungrier for candy than they had thought, and supplies on hand soon ran out. The new ration was the same as before: four ounces a week. To Britain's melancholy moppets that meant a couple of four-inch chocolate bars or a small bag of gumdrops...
...Retina. Their most notable conclusion in this period: the fibrous tissue was not a foreign growth between the lens and the retina (the sensitive screen upon which the lens focuses images), but a swollen, greyish transformation of the retina itself. It occurred when the babies were between two and four months...
Twelve babies, all three pounds or less at birth, were given vitamin E, beginning when they were about a week old. None of them has developed R.L.F. Of 17 others studied who did not get vitamin E, three began to show the early symptoms of the disease; so did four others who had weighed between three and four pounds. When vitamin A and iron were stopped, and vitamin E given to these seven, the disease was checked in four cases. This, cautioned Dr. William Owens, is "very encouraging, but not scientifically definite...
Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...