Hub of the Universe

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.

Boston I believe is a great place and ’tis called the Hub of the Universe.

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.

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.

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.