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Word: rappelyea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a high-school instructor named John Thomas Scopes ambled into the drugstore at Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Tenessee Monument | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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