I step out on my balcony, and the gilded dome of the State House-"theHub of the Universe"-isbut a stone's-throw off.

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.

For here was the Athens of America, the hub of the universe.

Torontonians think the hub of the universe is their capital on Lake Ontario.

You have heard Boston perhaps called the " Hub of the universe."

But I have said 'Boston is the hub of the Universe;' I will rest upon that.

He is the hub of the universe.

If Boston is the hub of the universe, Concord might be considered as the linchpin which holds it on.

The darling of the salons of Boston-which called itself the Athens of America and the hub of the universe!

So from Paris-toher the " hub of the universe"-Madamede Staël, "with wandering steps and slow, took her solitary way."

A lady, not a Bostonian, once said that if Boston were the hub of the universe, Brookline ought to be called the "Sub-hub."

The street was so close to Piccadilly Circus, self-proclaimed hub of the universe, but she could have been in the heart of the English countryside.

"I begin to feel as if we were quite the hub of the universe, now that the Zepps have acknowledged our existence."

"Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.