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Definition of Hub of the Universe
1. Noun. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services.
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill
Terms within: Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston Harbor, Beacon Hill, Charlestown
Generic synonyms: State Capital
Group relationships: Bay State, Ma, Massachusetts, Old Colony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hub Of The Universe
Literary usage of Hub of the Universe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"The "Hub of the Universe." As the Greyhound worked her way through the green and
picturesque archipelago of Boston harbor, the pilot did me the kindness of ..."
2. Teresina in America by Thérèse Yelverton, Maria Theresa] [Longworth (1875)
"CHAPTER I. BOSTON, THE Hub of the Universe. S it would certainly be an offence
to any Yankee for a traveller to write an ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Calcutta . . . swaggers as if it were the hub of the universe. ... For whereas
to-day Boston is ihe hub of the universe, Homer describes Calypso's island as ..."
4. China and Religion by Edward Harper Parker (1905)
"—Japan is the hub of the universe, and Shinto is its prophet.—As a political
engine, important; as a philosophy, a mere copy. —Weak origin of Japanese ..."
5. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"Ill ON THE Hub of the Universe.—After a wretched night in a suffocating sleeping-car
I got into Boston about 9.30 AM Not a soul came to meet ..."
6. Life and Society in America by Samuel Phillips Day (1880)
"As regards the original application of the phrase," Hub of the Universe," I am
still in doubt. I have, notwithstanding, a vague idea that it was bestowed ..."
7. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison (1921)
"CHAPTER XV THE Hub of the Universe 1830-1845 BOSTON STATE-HOUSE is the hub of
the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the ..."
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