centennial

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The budding friendship will be tested by a high-stakes heist, carried out during the city's centennial gala by a snake, a species long banned from the city.

From Barron's

“Americans celebrated Washington’s birthday long before Congress declared it a federal holiday. The centennial of his birth prompted festivities nationally and Congress established a Joint Committee to arrange for the occasion,” the federal agency continued.

From Washington Times

“When I read the Reader’s Digest excerpts of ‘Roots’ in 1974, I was mesmerized — that’s the only word for it,” Gates wrote for the magazine’s centennial commemoration.

From Washington Post

NW and the second event is a centennial commemoration that begins Saturday at noon at 18th and Columbia Rd NW.

From Washington Post

Joyce’s Dublin features prominently in “Mapping Fiction,” a new exhibit at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens that honors the centennial year of “Ulysses” but ranges far more widely among eras and genres.

From Los Angeles Times