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Language and Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Agnes E. Meyer
Agnes E. Meyer*
Affiliation:
Washington, D.C.
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My Sense of gratitude—of indebtedness—has often propelled me into difficult situations but none more difficult than the one in which I find myself tonight. I accepted the invitation of your Executive Secretary, Mr. George Winchester Stone, Jr., to address this formidable assemblage because such knowledge of foreign languages as I possess has been and still is one of the most formative influences on my whole life and my concept of the meaning of life.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , April 1957 , pp. 13 - 22
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1957

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