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...World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this...
...true that many people can hear the radio who cannot detect ordinary sounds. This is due, apparently, only to the high pitch of the sound emitted by radio receivers. The radio telephone, however, may prove useful in training partly deaf persons to hear...
...women who goes out from an American university today determined to live for financial gain or for personal fame, is one blind to the world's needs and deaf to the challenge of God. We are summoned to go out with a vision of a new world bright before our eyes that there is one who can make that new world possible, but that upon us rests a mighty responsibility to wage eternal warfare against those forces which are seeking to prevent the coming of that new world...
...trained diplomat and his recent victories over the Greeks in a military way are credited to strategy of the highest order,--but his greatest usefulness at the conference, from the Turkish point of view at least, lies in the fact that he is almost stone deaf. His hearing, writes a correspondent, is so poor that he never goes anywhere without an aide-de-camp to rebellow into Ishmet's ear everything that has been shouted at him. Add to this handicap the point that Ishmet, though understanding French, is the "least proficient of all Turks in speaking...
...methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves worthy of it. At one end of the scale we do differentiate. We look after the blind and deaf we put the feeble-minded in special institutions. It is time that we provided special training to utilize to the fullest extent the best mind of the country...