Lilienthal
Americannoun
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David E(ly), 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
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Otto 1848–96, German aeronautical engineer and inventor.
noun
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“It’s caused a great amount of uncertainty,” Lilienthal told Salon in a phone interview.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2025
We started in Anklam, a small German city whose claim to fame is native son Otto Lilienthal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
His principal day-to-day adversary was David E. Lilienthal, seven years younger and equally brilliant, one of the Authority’s three directors and later the first head of the Atomic Energy Commission.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
The German filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is also present, and in his memoir “A Third Face,” Mr. Fuller writes that R. W. Fassbinder tried to talk his way into a part.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2016
Ernest hosted a dinner for them all at Trader Vic’s, featuring his customary personal menu—“a kind of smoked sparerib, eaten ‘by hand,’ and a coffee plus brandy,” David Lilienthal recorded in his personal journal.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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