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  • noun Plural form of centennial.

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Examples

  • But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

    Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

  • But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

    Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

  • But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

    Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

  • In recent months, the centennials of both Lester Young and Art Tatum came and went almost unnoticed, but Reinhardt is omnipresent — more so than during his lifetime.

    Django Reinhardt, Omnipresent Icon Will Friedwald 2010

  • So the real question that every centennial - the centennials, I don't like them too much.

    Novelist Shares An Ode To Chilean Miners 2010

  • So the real question that every centennial - the centennials, I don't like them too much.

    Novelist Shares An Ode To Chilean Miners 2010

  • I've spent the last couple days in Edmonton and Calgary, where the Queen and Prince Philip were concluding their visit to mark the centennials of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

    Planning Ahead in a Changing World and Changing Demographics 2005

  • I know that as we approach our centennials both the Empire Club and Saskatchewan can look back on our histories with pride and forward to our futures with optimism and confidence.

    Prairie Agriculture: An Important Part of Canada's Future 2000

  • During the '70s and' 80s, it was the high-water mark of centennials for many institutions that were founded in the 1870s and 1880s.

    Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 1997

  • [Castro] In the midst of so many centennials, all of a sudden I remember that it is going to be fifty years; I began in 1945.

    Castro Interviewed After 26 Jul Ceremony 1995

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