Scopes

[ skohps ]

noun

1. John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre Scopes Trial, or Monkey Trial in 1925.

Example Sentences

The organization helped Scopes’ lawyers find expert witnesses to testify on his behalf.

From Science News

Perhaps the most striking example was Science Service’s involvement in the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, when high school science teacher John Scopes was put on trial for breaking a Tennessee law that forbade teaching evolution.

From Science News

In July 1925, the town hosted the Scopes Monkey Trial, a landmark case in the history of creationism.

From The Daily Beast

The Scopes Trial was a formative moment for modern creationism.

From The Daily Beast

John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience.

From The Daily Beast

A few of those community leaders invited Scopes to the drugstore, bought him a fountain drink, and convinced him to stand trial.

From The Daily Beast

So said William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer arguing against evolution, at the infamous Scopes “monkey trial.”

From The Daily Beast

But it was less the scopes of the films which made Carmen animate than it was the virile woman who played her.

From Project Gutenberg

Otis Mason finds that the life of a social group involves a variety of movements characterized by different ranges or scopes.

From Project Gutenberg

The only ones permitted to talk were the controllers who had the aircraft on their scopes.

From Project Gutenberg

And it is possible that the same person or persons mounted the two scopes.

From Project Gutenberg

Both the bow and the stern observers saw the enemy ship now with their 'scopes gazing directly along our Benson-light.

From Project Gutenberg

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