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Word: hubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filling the room with clouds of smoke. The three Bremen flyers, Baron von Huenefeld, Captain Koehl, and Major Fitzmaurice, fought their way through cheering Bostonians and tangled folds of the banners of massed American legionaries from the Colonial Room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday afternoon following the Hub's reception to the trio. The sole means of escape was by way of the hotel's rear kitchen elevator, where the besieged flyers, thinking themselves free from further annoyances, found a CRIMSON reporter who had slipped by the cordon of vigilant detectives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bremen Flyers Saved From Throngs of Legionaries by Rear Kitchen Elevator--Say Airplanes Will Outlast Zeppelins | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...even see the glorified young militarists except during the game. In addition to the probable promenade en grande tenue and the luncheon there is a rumor that Boston hostesses and debutantes are eagerly anticipating the appearance of military full dress, resplendent with gold braid, epaulets, and decorations, in Hub salons, salles-a-manger, and ball-rooms. In view of this situation, gratifying as the Boston hospitality promises to be, the University will undoubtedly view with alarm the usurpation of its prerogatives as a host...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARCHING MEN | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Baltimore Monumental City Boston The Hub Charleston, S. C Palmetto City Denver City of the Plains Galveston Oleander City Los Angeles City of the Angels Memphis Bluff City New Orleans Crescent City Portland, Ore Rose City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen City | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...duchess is the slow bulging hub of a wheel whose whirling spokes are a glitter of medieval cities and country castles, deaths and tournaments and plagues. Jews who lent money and princes who rode through summer dusts or winter snows, bishops who begat bastards, kings who kept mistresses and died of wounds; all the remote and entangled brightness of a century, like all past

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

That is the keynote, hub, axle, dynamo, driving force, central idea of Rotary?SERVICE?and Rotarians have sent emissaries all over the world to pass the word along and plant more Rotary Clubs, each composed of 50 to 200 representatives of separate professions and "lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: On to Ostend | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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