 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 932 pagini
...the term 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... | |
 | 1918 - 502 pagini
...Act. But 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 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... | |
 | Robert Hiester Montgomery - 1920 - 1304 pagini
...act. But 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 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... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pagini
...remarked: "But 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 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... | |
 | 1918 - 498 pagini
...act. But 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 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... | |
 | 1919 - 566 pagini
...the will of 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 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... | |
 | 1919 - 482 pagini
...of 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 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1920 - 740 pagini
...Mr. Justice Holmes in the recent case of Towne v. Kisner, 245 US 418, is pertinent. He said (425) : "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... | |
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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. 
