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.
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“It’s caused a great amount of uncertainty,” Lilienthal told Salon in a phone interview.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2025
Lilienthal was known in his day as “the Flying Man.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
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
Toward the end, Lilienthal elicited “the one touch of anything resembling bitter feeling in this man, who was treated so badly when he should have been knighted.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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