Athens of America
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There are those of us who think that Boston - the Athens of America - is the US's greatest city.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015
In the Athens of America this, like other manifestations of European culture, got a sympathetic hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outside the Athens of America, Strange Fruit was selling 3,000 copies a day, while a new edition of 50,000 copies was tumbling off the press.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Specialist perhaps had a bigger success in the Athens of America than anywhere else.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fame of the Seven extended into the neighboring States; Boston, not yet the Athens of America, confessed "that Pegasus was not backed by better horsemen from any part of the Union."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
