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

"Paris will soon be the Boston of Europe—it will be the Hub of the Universe."

From Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by Bangs, John Kendrick

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 O'Brien, Seumas

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