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Word: hub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dingy, impertinent, little trains chug in every few minutes and, before they have even skated to a halt, begin to spew forth a few score commuters who flash past him on staccato high heels or solemn, rubber-heeled oxfords. Cogs in the Hub's vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...Ganzer Kerl!" Adolf Hitler, who makes it his crude habit to rub the noses of distinguished foreign guests as deeply as possible in Nazidom, characteristically staged the Munich conference at the very hub of the Nazi movement, the Führerhaus (Leader's House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Chiefs, One Peace | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...greatest show of human antics on earth takes place at Nürnberg, the grey-walled medieval city which up-to-date Nazis have made the busy world hub of antiSemitism. Annually it is swamped by some 1,500,000 Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Centre Of The World! | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

There was a difference of opinion concerning Boston audiences. Miss Holm seemed to think that Boston audiences did not react very heartily to risque lines and she termed Bostonians "rather slow." Miss Buchanan, who takes the lead said that she was agreeably surprised how warm the audiences in the Hub were. "The audiences in San Francisco were the most appreciative," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. D. C. Host to Cast of "The Women" | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...strong squad of swimmers from the Boston Boys' Club will meet the Yardling splashers here this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The Hub team is expected to be a strong threat to the Freshmen's undefeated record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardest Meet So Far Will Be Provided by Boston Club Swimmers | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

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