Word: 120th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before World War II, it was common practice for U.S. artists either to tout or tear apart "The American Scene." Last week two big annual shows (the Whitney Museum's "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" and the "120th Annual" of the conservative National Academy of Design) seemed to say that times have changed...
When he celebrated his 120th birthday last week, James Wilson was almost as sound as ever-he still ate anything he wanted, and could read the Bible without his spectacles. His face was almost unwrinkled, his hearing unimpaired and he still had nine teeth. When friends and relatives called, James Wilson stood on the front porch and made a 15-minute speech with sweeping gestures. Nervously, his audience asked him to sit down...
...120th U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital, commanded by Colonel William E. Williams of Austin, Tex., has fallen the terrible task of trying to save the lives of the Buchenwald sick and starving. The hospital moved into Buchenwald April 16 and since then has been working at top speed, helped by French, German, Czech, Hungarian and other doctors among the inmates...
...120th took over two of the former SS barracks, cleaned them out with the help of internees. They put in cots, blankets and medical supplies of their own issue. A typhus ward was organized in a building formerly used by SS doctors for typhus experiments on the prisoners. Then the Army and inmate doctors readied the 15 other 55 buildings in the camp and started to clean out the terrible barracks of the Small Camp, in which the starving men lay packed like rotting cargo on bare wooden shelves reaching from the floor to the ceiling...
...sunlit rooms with flowers. Whole blood was transfused into the emaciated bodies, nourishment was injected intravenously when they could not digest strengthening soups. But more than anything else, the simple fact of humane care and decent surroundings had its effect. In the first two days after the 120th moved in, only two men died...