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Ballinger
U.S. secretary of the interior (1909-11). Born in Boonesboro, Iowa, he moved to Washington and served as the reform mayor of Seattle (1904-6) before being appointed federal commissioner of the land office. As secretary of the interior, he sought to make public resources more available for private exploitation. Implicated in a fraudulent Alaskan land-claims scheme, he was cleared after a congressional investigation but resigned in 1911. The episode split the Republicans between conservatives led by Pres. W. H. Taft and progressives loyal to T. Roosevelt.


canning
Method of preserving food from spoilage by storing it in containers that are hermetically sealed and then sterilized by heat. The process was invented in 1809 by Nicolas Appert (c.1750-1841) of France, who used glass bottles. In the 19th cent. tin-coated iron cans with soldered tops, bottoms, and seams were used, but in the early 20th cent. these were replaced by tin-plated steel containers with interlocking seams and polymer seals. In the later 20th cent. seamless aluminum cans (punched out from a single sheet) capped with a steel or aluminum lid became common, particularly in the beverage industry. In modern canning, food is passed under hot water or steam, transferred to a sterile container, sealed inside, and subjected to heat sufficient to kill any remaining microorganisms. The process preserves most nutrients but often affects consistency and taste.


Lansing
City (pop., 1996 est.: 126,000), capital of Michigan. Located on the Grand River at its junction with the Red Cedar River, it was a recently settled site when the state capital was moved there from Detroit in 1847. Originally called Michigan, it adopted the name Lansing in 1848. It became a center of auto manufacturing in the late 19th cent. Now a major automobile production center, it is the site of the first U.S. agricultural college, Michigan State Univ. (now in E. Lansing).


meaning
In philosophy, the sense of an expression (e.g., a word or sentence) by contrast with its reference (i.e., the relation between expressions and what they designate). For example, "the tallest person" means "the person whose height is greater than that of any other," but its reference may be John Doe--or no one, since two or more can be tallest. Thus, it will not do to say that words mean the thing they designate (or make us think of). Further problems beset this referential theory of meaning. Two expressions may have the same referent but not the same meaning (e.g., "the morning star" and "the evening star" denote the same planet, yet do not have exactly the same meaning). Meaningful phrases can also pretend to refer without really doing so (e.g., "the present king of France" is meaningful even though there is no such person). By contrast, semantic theories claim that the notion of meaning is best explained in terms of truth rather than reference, that a word's ...

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