 | Gérard Kreijen - 2004 - 405 pages
...order, or rather Man' s changing perception thereof. To put it in the words of Chief Justice Holmes, 'a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used'.294 This 290 Taken... | |
 | Kellie Buis - 2004 - 162 pages
...Prompted Conversations 3. Independent Word Play 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, Jr. (1843-1935) Research instructs us that students... | |
 | Brian Sullivan - 2005 - 242 pages
...more conducive to open discussion which will more likely lead to a successful selling relationship. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, opinion on Towne v. Eisner, January 7, 1918 If the "living thoughts" you... | |
 | Ruth Wajnryb - 2005 - 244 pages
...'Goddammit'. Of course, these loadings are not totally fixed. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, 'a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used'. So there's no easy, one-size-fits-all manual, like those guides on what to do about stains where you... | |
 | Aharon Barak - 2005 - 460 pages
...not take on a single, unique meaning in the consciousness of every listener. As Justice Holmes noted, "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."66 Language is not, however, infinitely malleable. It may be vague, ambiguous, and capable of... | |
 | Russell L. Parr, Gordon V. Smith - 2005 - 890 pages
...timepoint. Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized that value has many meanings when he said: "A word (value) is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."2 Value is not the same as price or cost, although at times they are equivalent. When we speak... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...Hawthorne, 1804-1864 ~ Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 ~ A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894 ~ All words are pegs to hang ideas on. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887... | |
 | Ernst Troeltsch - 1971 - 180 pages
...than one term in the German. Oliver Wendell Holmes gave pungent expression to this point when he said, "A word is not a crystal transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Throughout, the translator's intention has been not to turn out a tortuously literal translation but... | |
 | Donald Wittman - 2006 - 379 pages
...Economic Analysis of Law. New York: Aspen Publishers. 216 9/11 AND THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418 (1918). In 2001, Silverstein Properties,... | |
 | Jeffrey W. Stempel - 2005 - 3276 pages
...or erroneous textual interpretation. 75 See Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425 (1918) (a "word is not crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin...circumstances and the time in which it is used"). 76 See, eg, Easton v. Washington County Ins. Co., 391 Pa. 28, 137 A.2d 332 (1957). But see County Mut.... | |
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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. 
