Scopes
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
Alfred Molina, John Douglas Thompson and Chris Perfetti star in Pasadena Playhouse’s revival of ‘Inherit the Wind,’ the Scopes “monkey” trial drama, directed by Michael Michetti.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
Scopes had his day in court and although he was found guilty and fined $100, Tennessee did not come out of the trial unscathed.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
Microsoft’s Scope 3 emissions are nearly 50 times as large as Scopes 1 and 2 combined, and they rose 23 percent in the year through June, after small declines in previous years.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
A local historian later ventured that the Osage murder trials received more media coverage than the previous year’s Scopes “monkey trial,” in Tennessee, regarding the legality of teaching evolution in a state-funded school.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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