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
Bindle had under-estimated the thews of the porter.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
But for imperfect beings, struggling on to their goal, freedom is required and the opposition of evil is indispensable, in order that the moral thews and sinews may harden.
From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham
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