scopes trial

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scopes trial - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Scopes trial
      n 1: a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes
           violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in
           high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings
           Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted
           but the verdict was later reversed