...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;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice OUVER WENDELL HOLMES, Towne vs. Eisner. "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely...

...of the United States and was unanimously reversed"; whereupon the appeal was dismissed with costs. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...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 used." — Per Mr. Justice...

...involve the conclusion that they could not be regarded as income under the Sixteenth Amendment, declared: "But it is not necessarily true that income means...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." The decision was unanimous, but Mr. Justice McKenna confined his concurrence to the result. 60 Eisner...

...not a crystal, transparent and unchanged ; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."' On the other hand, courts with a predeliction for the "normal" standard, rigidly exclude extrinsic...

...a purely Socialistic standpoint), and Albert J. Beveridge's masterly Life of John Marshall. (The 1 "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Holmes, J., in Towns v. Eisner (1918), 245 US 418, 425. chapters of my book covering the period described...

...Wendell Holmes in the case of Towncy v. Eisner: "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." One may go on from a consideration of this important linguistic fact to...

...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...may vary greatly in color and content according to circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the...

...Rep. 158. 74 252 US 189, 219. In Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425, Mr. Justice Holmes had said: "... it is not necessarily true that income means the same...may vary greatly in color and content according to circumstances and the time in which it is used." Ct. Mr. Justice Pitney's reference in Eisner v. Macomber...

...(245 US (1917) 425, 38 S. Ct. 158, 62 L. ed. 417) where Holmes, J., expressed this often quoted view: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." In Washington v. Dawson & Co. (264 US 219, at 236, 68 L. ed. 646) Mr. Justice Brandeis, -3t • •...

...is not necessarily true that Income means the same thing in the Constitution and the Act [of 1913]. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Toicne v. Eisner, 245 US 418. 425. It may be that depreciation in the 1909 Act was a broad term, subject...