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
A nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Specialist perhaps had a bigger success in the Athens of America than anywhere else.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no high school in Boston, the vaunted Athens of America, until 1852.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
