Done immediately, at once and without delay. 1. To make somebody decide to do something. 2. 3. To provide actors during a performance with words or lines they have forgotten. 4. To suggest something that somebody ought to say, or give a reminder to a speaker. 1. A reminder to a performer of the words or lines he or she has forgotten.
Ninety-nine days later, after one of the most daring journeys in American history, John Wesley Powell emerged from the Grand Canyon to become a contemporary American hero. In the following years Powell led several geological and ethnological explorations in Arizona and Utah under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution.
Three months later only five of the original company plus their one -arm Civil War hero-leader would emerge from the depths of the Grand Canyon at the mouth of the Virgin River. Thirty-five-year-old John Wesley Powell was that expedition's leader.