 | 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, 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.... | |
 | 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, 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."... | |
 | 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; 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.... | |
 | 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; 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.... | |
 | 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 ; 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."... | |
 | 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, 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."... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 416 pages
...exposed to such further changes, of form and of meaning, as usage may prescribe. ..." Century Dictionary. "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."... | |
 | 1920 - 446 pages
...of the United States and was unanimously reversed"; whereupon the appeal was dismissed with costs. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and contents 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. 
