Scopes

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Scopes
       n : Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by
           teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925
           he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended
           by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970) [syn: {John Scopes}, {John
           Thomas Scopes}]