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Scopes
Pronunciation: (skōps), [key]—
n.
John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre
(Scopes' Tri"al or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
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