Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, hub of the universe, is famous, among other things for being both a theatrical "graveyard" and a red-headed baseball town. Plays that took New York by storm have come to Tremont St. to wither away like the smile of a Freshman waiting in the Dean's office, while ball teams that have not seen the light of the first division after July 15 in the memory even of a medical student still draw hordes of rabid fans...
...time was when Boston was the Hub of the Universe and ruled with an oriental omnipotence the intellectual life of a continent. Then the Bulfinch drawing-rooms of Beacon Street were more English than Victoria, and the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons who presided in them were the embodiment of polite and proper learning. And then Harvard was Boston...
...been established by foreign astronemers, according to Shapley, that this star mass turns around and around like a grindstone, completing a circle once every 300,000,000 years. The earth is a distance of 50,000 light years from the hub of this wheel of stars. The hub or center of gravity of the mass is in the southern constellation Sagittarius, where a dense swarm of stars is located...
...crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught...
...Friday nights throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...