scopes trial

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• March 2. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  Scopes trial — noun — english

  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