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

Throngs watch that eye of Mars, Apollo's grace, The thews of Hercules, in cruel hope That ten may fall before him ere he falls.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese

At twenty he was a braw, brown-haired, brown-eyed lad of six feet two inches in stature, straight and upright, and with the thews and sinews of an ox.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir