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.
MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL: It was 1869. Ten men in four boats were about to embark on a journey that would cover almost 1,000 miles through uncharted canyons, and change the west forever.