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
Media puffery turned pointedly Presidential in the early months of 1939, prompting Lilienthal to write in his journals that Willkie had been “nominated by the magazines.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
Cho first saw wild ballooning spiders on a walk through Berlin's Lilienthal Park — a memorial to Otto Lilienthal, a German aviation pioneer who died from a gliding accident in 1896.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018
Under the direction of David Lilienthal, beginning in 1933, the TVA workers erected a series of dams to harness the Tennessee River in the creation of much-needed hydroelectric power.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Numerous top-level scientific leaders, including Lilienthal, Conant, and Bush, were familiar with the file.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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