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  • Bill Erb's thesis defense on June 12, 2007 at the Drexel University Chemistry Department.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Bill Erb's thesis defense on June 12, 2007 at the Drexel University Chemistry Department.

    Bill Erb Thesis Defense 2007

  • They offer a variety of conjectures: Putin could have had a stroke, perhaps suffered in utero; he may be afflicted with, as Pezzella speculates, an Erb's palsy, caused by a forceps tugging on his right shoulder at birth; he could have had polio as a child (polio was epidemic in Europe and western Russia after World War II).

    The Accidental Autocrat 2005

  • They offer a variety of conjectures: Putin could have had a stroke, perhaps suffered in utero; he may be afflicted with, as Pezzella speculates, an Erb's palsy, caused by a forceps tugging on his right shoulder at birth; he could have had polio as a child (polio was epidemic in Europe and western Russia after World War II).

    The Accidental Autocrat 2005

  • He knew quite well what time it had been, because of Erb's information, but he wanted to see what Mr. Fellows had to say.

    The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

  • Or, perhaps it was Erb's silly wife, who grabbed other people's hundred-dollar bills as if they were cigar coupons.

    The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

  • "Don't ask me to try to coerce Erb's wife over to your side-or get her to spill things she's learned from her husband."

    The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

  • There was a sneer on Erb's lips, but otherwise his face was impassive.

    The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

  • Hatch, Erb's friend with the pince-nez, got the dice next and dropped a half dollar on the cloth.

    The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

  • We've got to sue him here in this state, where Erb's entrenched himself pretty solidly.

    The Laughing Fox Gruber, Frank 1940

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