Definition of Hub of the Universe

1. Noun. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hub Of The Universe

Hsuan Chiao
HuP gene
Hu antigens
Huainan
Huainaputina
Hualapai
Hualpai
Huang He
Huaqiao
Huascaran
Huave
Huaxi
Huayco tinamou
Huayco tinamous
Huayna Capac
Hub of the Universe (current term)
Hubbard
Hubbard tank
Hubbardian
Hubble
Hubble's constant
Hubble's law
Hubble constant
Hubble law
Hubei
Hubel
Hubert
Hubrecht's protochordal knot
Huck Finn
Huckabee

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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