 | 1926 - Broj stranica: 1090
...amount to the same thing, if the latter is charged off in time. Words do not always mean the samething. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...in color and content according to the circumstances in which it is used." Lámar v. United States, 36 S. Ct. 255, 240 US 60, 60 L. Ed. 526. The word "debt"... | |
 | 1926 - Broj stranica: 1144
...in the case of Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425, 38 S. Ct. 158, 159 (62 L. Ed. 372, LRA 1918D, 254): according to the circumstances and the time in. which it is used." It must therefore be held that the questions here presented are not within the issues heretofore adjudicated.... | |
 | 1926 - Broj stranica: 1126
...the case of Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425, 38 S. Ct. 158, 159 (62 L. Ed. 372, LRA 1918D, 254): , . according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." It must therefore be held that the questions here presented are not within the issues heretofore adjudicated.... | |
 | 1918 - Broj stranica: 500
...Amendment is not an immediate issue, and is important only as throwing light on the construction of the Act But it is not necessarily true that income means the...the circumstances and the time in which it Is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the Constitution, the Government had... | |
 | Herbert Lewis Davis - 1927 - Broj stranica: 174
...Justice Holmes of the Supreme Court of the United States, in re Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, said: A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. In view of the foregoing, let the person anticipating making a will, go, therefore, to the ablest lawyer... | |
 | William Adams Brown - 1928 - Broj stranica: 360
...loyalties as well as convey meanings. And loyalties and emotions are alike in process of constant change. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged....according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."1 These facts we must bear in mind when we approach the matter of creed subscription. When I... | |
 | Robert Hiester Montgomery - 1920 - Broj stranica: 1320
...is not an immediate issue, and is important only as throwing light on the construction of the act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution, the government had... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs Appeals - 1918 - Broj stranica: 592
...proper. As was well said by Mr. Justice Holmes in the recent case of Towne v. Eisner (advance sheets), "a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought that may vary greatly in coloring and content according to the circumstances and the time in which... | |
 | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission - 1940 - Broj stranica: 1240
...Telephone Co. T. Pubic Service Commission, 262 U. 8. 276, 310 (1923) : "Value is a word of many meanings" ; "A word Is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged...vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstance* and the time in which it is used" — Mr. Justice Holmes in Tovme v. Bisner, 245 U. 8.... | |
 | 1927 - Broj stranica: 868
...(245 ü. S. 418), said: A wi i« not a cryttal, transparent and unchanged, it it the »kin of a- Uving thought, and may vary greatly in color and content...according to the circumstances and the time in which it it iiacd. In view of the foregoing, let the person anticipating making a will, go, therefore, to the... | |
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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. 
