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've been through it all; some of it is great in the matter of thews and brawn; some fine.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

In Greece the athlete was beautiful; but strength to-day is in the nerves; to-day we see more beauty in a face moulded by mind than in the thews of a discus-thrower.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various