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
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
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
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
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
