 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.  Atomic Energy Commission reports v.2 - Page 515by United States Atomic Energy Commission - 1966Full view - About this book
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 932 pages
...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 is... | |
 | 1918 - 502 pages
...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,...color and content 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,... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pages
...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,...color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Later statutes of Congress will make it necessary to determine whether... | |
 | Robert Hiester Montgomery - 1920 - 1304 pages
...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;...color and content 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,... | |
 | 1918 - 498 pages
...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;...color and content 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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 636 pages
...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...color and content 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.... | |
 | 1919 - 566 pages
...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,...color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Thus, statutes must be interpreted by courts to give them meaning and... | |
 | 1919 - 482 pages
...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...color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Stephen in Regina v. Tolson," well points out the many different... | |
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