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
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
Augustus Cabot chose a school, a select, aristocratic and expensive school near the "Hub of the Universe."
From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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
