Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about half an hour of walking we came to the end. Digging our way out, we reached the upper air and looked about us in entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from my earlier letters that the University was situated on a spur of the same mountain-unit on which the city was perched, but separated from it by a steep ridge which made it almost inaccessible. The tunnel had been built underneath...
...actual outcome of the election as in the fact that in all probability the result will not have even the slightly beneficial effect of teaching the slothful voter a well-deserved lesson. We might have expected, for example, that with the New York election as an immediate precedent, the Hub voter who would ordinarily have supported the Good Government Association would have realized this time that he could not afford to neglect going to the polls. But as that warning had no effect and as election after election in Boston has resulted in the same way, there seems...
...truly in your news item of November 30, "That nitre cocktails find favor among Hub's better classes." For if the formula comes from Harvard can there be higher authority...