 | Kris Cole - 2001 - 376 pages
...words to that effect). And that's about the size of it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. put it like this: "A word is not a crystal, transparent, and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Not surprising, then, that what we mean, and what another person understands, can be quite different.... | |
 | Zeynep Direk, Leonard Lawlor - 2002 - 404 pages
...is broadly construed within First Amendment jurisprudence: the citation from Holmes runs as follows: "a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used" (1 1-12). We might consider this figure not only as a racial metaphor which describes the "word" as... | |
 | Waleed Haider Malik, Carlos Larios Ochaita - 2002 - 112 pages
...great jurist, Justice Holmes, "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skein of a living thought and may vary greatly in color...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." It is for the judge to give meaning to what the legislature has said, and it is this process of interpretation... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - 2003 - 400 pages
...is broadly construed within First Amendment jurisprudence: the citation from Holmes runs as follows: "a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used" (1 1-12). We might consider this figure not only as a racial metaphor which describes the "word" as... | |
 | James Gross - 2010 - 423 pages
...(1962). In Oak Manufacturing Co., 141 NLRB at 1325, the Board quoted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...a living thought and may vary greatly in color and context according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." 39. Carl T. Mason, Co., 142... | |
 | Mark Morton - 2009 - 238 pages
...to conceive of the human arse as a bakery item. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Another cluster of contemporary arse synonyms are... | |
 | Corynne McSherry - 2003 - 287 pages
...all representational forms, are often multivalent. A word, wrote one judge in 1918, "is the skin of living thought and may vary greatly in color and content...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."25 No matter how carefully a given idea is specified, as it must be for a property right in the... | |
 | Maryann Zihala - 2005 - 234 pages
...protection of the laws," is susceptible of varying interpretations, for as Mr. Justice Holmes declared, "a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...in which it is used." Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418 (1918). We must, therefore, seek whatever aid is available in determining the precise meaning of the... | |
 | Stéphane Beaulac - 2004 - 215 pages
...continuously changing society. He wrote the following, in the context of statutory interpretation: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." 11 These "living thoughts," however, can accomplish more than the mere representation, for the convenience... | |
 | Eugene Garver - 2004 - 285 pages
...in Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425 (1918): A "word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged" but "the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." In important ways, my sense of "argument" or "reasoning" that includes its purposes and other contextual... | |
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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. 
