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Word: christeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily, but he goes on. A brother watches his sister being made into a nun, falls in love with the novice kneeling by her side. When he hears the priest take away their given names and christen them anew, it is as if the world ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kentucky Cloud-Land | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Although ten Freshmen eights were planning to christen their boats yesterday, and four University and four 150 pound crews were scheduled to go out on the river, the weather perversely turned cold and a thin sheet of ice was formed, prohibiting navigation to the fragile craft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice Prevents Rowing Yesterday | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

...christen thee Akron," declared Mrs. Hoover last week at the Goodyear-Zep-pelin plant at Akron as she pulled a red, white and blue cord which released 48 pigeons from the Navy's new dirigible. ¶President Hoover appointed Frank Evans of Salt Lake City, onetime executive secretary of American Farm Bureau Federation, to the fruit-&-vegetable vacancy on the Federal Farm Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Load of Distress | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Walking gingerly under a large umbrella with a George III silver jug of wine in her hand. Queen Mary leaned over the dock's edge, poured the wine into the water. "I christen this dock King George the Fifth!" said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Auld Soakie | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Christen Thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: I Christen Thee... | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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