thews
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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
What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He gathered his steel-like thews under him with a mighty tenseness to spring.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
