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Definition of Centennials
1. centennial [n] - See also: centennial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centennials
Literary usage of Centennials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum Or Moravian Church by John Henry Clewell (1902)
"... CHAPTER XXXII TWO Centennials IN 1900 the Salem church building attained an
age of one hundred years. It was decided to celebrate this event in a ..."
2. Men and Events of Half a Century by Frederick T. Wallace (1882)
"THE YEAR OF Centennials. ' 1 ^HIS year of 1874 marks a centennial period which -*•
awakens wonderful historical memories not to be surpassed, ..."
3. Editorial Echoes by William Morton Payne (1902)
"TWO Centennials. IN the Autumn of 1901, a famous New England institution of
learning celebrated, with ceremonies at once brilliant and dignified, ..."
4. American Orators and Oratory: Comprising Biographical Sketches of the by C. M. Whitman (1883)
"When you had the Centennials at Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, last
year, when men who went from the South to Massachusetts were received there ..."
5. Sermon, Proceedings and Addresses in Commemoration of the Fiftieth by Mass First Church and Society (Leicester (1862)
"... SEMI-Centennials. ORDINATION. . . . GOLDEN WEDDING. THE Fiftieth Anniversaries
of the ... Centennials."
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