 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 932 lapas
...requisition. As was said by Justice Holmes in the case of Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and it may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is... | |
 | 1918 - 502 lapas
...it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the Constitution and the Act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it Is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the Constitution, the Government... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 lapas
...it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the Constitution and the Act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Later statutes of Congress will make it necessary to determine whether the Sixteenth Amendment... | |
 | 1918 - 498 lapas
...it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the constitution and the act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar vs. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution, the government... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 636 lapas
...same thing In the Constitution and the Act. A word IB not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it IB the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...according to the circumstances and the time in which It la need. Lámar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65, 36 Sup. Ct. 255, 60 L. Ed. 526. Whatever the meaning... | |
 | 1919 - 566 lapas
...the legislature has to be expressed by words, spoken or written." Mr. Justice Holmes28 says: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Thus, statutes must be interpreted by courts to give them meaning and they are interpreted thru... | |
 | 1919 - 482 lapas
...Justice Holmes' epigram contained in the recent case of Towne v. Eisner,8 which was as follows: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged ; it is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Stephen in Regina v. Tolson," well points out the many different and confusing meanings... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 416 lapas
...such further changes, of form and of meaning, as usage may prescribe. ..." Century Dictionary. "A word is not a crystal — transparent and unchanged; it...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Tovme n. Eisner. "I wish our clever young poets would remember... | |
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. 
