Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember the subways and buses stop...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once described the Boston State House as "the hub of the solar system." Serenely situated on Beacon Hill, this masterpiece of Charles Bulfinch's design is as good a place to start as any. From the Hill streets stretch down to all parts of the city...
...varsity nine yesterday, and, as was to be expected, were soundly beaten, 7-4. The game, which was played dangerously late in the Reading Period, (and at the absurd hour of 4:15 p.m.) proved nothing except that the Crimson is far and away the best club in the Hub area, possibly including the Red Sox. That much we already knew...
Knox's brainchild, the Orbiteer, is to the Frisbie* what the Fairlane is to the model T. An 18-in. soft-plastic disk of six blades extending from the hub, with a handle shaped like the ionizer of a space station, it is thrown into the wind on an axis perpendicular to the ground. Depending on the throw, it scoots along for 50 ft. to 100 ft., then tips to a horizontal plane and zooms upward as high...
Designer Bass is imitated by just about everybody now, but no one has come near him. Sometimes his effects are relatively simple. Looking up from the hub of a wagon wheel, he stared out across a tan Pacific of endless real estate and then placed three small words on the threshold of infinity: The Big Country. To credit the cast and crew of The Seven Year Itch, he used a set of pastel panels opening like tessellated greeting cards. That was all. But the colors and layout were as visually delightful as a Mondrian in motion...