thews
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What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surveyor W. J. Ma thews of Lloyds: "Two of the Rex's three turbodynamos were ready early this morning and the third was put in operation about 6 a. m. only to break down again."
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither his great brain nor his little thews could prevail to make the yellow rivets sink to its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
But our forebears were composed of less delicate nerves and tougher thews and sinews than ourselves.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
I bring thee back the standard from as rude and red a fray As e'er was proof of soldier's thews, or theme for minstrel's lay: Bid Hubert fetch the silver bowl, and liquor quantum suff.;
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
