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

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

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

That it constituted any tie between him and the "Hub of the Universe," unless it might be the inverted tie of opposition, he never admitted.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell