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
Boston I believe is a great place and ’tis called the Hub of the Universe.
From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by Seumas O'Brien
A friend from the Hub of the Universe, in a somewhat supercilious manner, not long ago informed one of our local friends that his own home was hundreds of miles to the southward.
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
"Paris will soon be the Boston of Europe—it will be the Hub of the Universe."
From Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs
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 Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
