Hauptmann
Americannoun
noun
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German playwright and novelist Gerhart Hauptmann insisted that “dramatic dialogue must only present thoughts in the process of being thought.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Hauptmann was convicted after a six-week trial in Flemington, New Jersey, and sentenced to death.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
One such scientist is Greenlandic microbiologist Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann who lives in the capital city, Nuuk.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
Bruno Hauptmann was sentenced to death in the kidnapping and death of Baby Lindbergh, but police always believed, but never proved, that someone within the Lindbergh household was also involved.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
Werner washes Frederick’s mess tin for him; he shares homework answers, shoe polish, sweets from Dr. Hauptmann; they run next to each other during field exercises.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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