Hub of the Universe

Example Sentences

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Boston's icy reception to the Games may reveal something deeper about the city that likes to call itself the Hub of the Universe, often without irony.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2015

Conjure up the picture—the peacock at milking-time in the farm-yard; thus Addicks came to Boston—though it is far from my intention to identify the bucolic background I have drawn with the Hub of the Universe.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William

Well, he left his native State, and set up at the Hub of the Universe, which every one knows is Boston, where he began his education as a financier and a millionaire.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Augustus Cabot chose a school, a select, aristocratic and expensive school near the "Hub of the Universe."

From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Hub of the Universe, a name humorously given by Wendell Holmes to Boston, or rather the State House of the city.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin