Word: poona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meher Baba met a holy woman named Baba Jan (Angel of the Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also announced the award of 63 master of arts degrees. The men receiving this degree as of the Class of 1931 were: Winslow Ames, Yonkers, New York, P. V. Bapat, Poona City, India, C. C. Beach, Chevy Chase, Mary-land, W. H. Bennett, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, J. H. Birss, Jr., New York City, B. A. Booth, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, W. H. Butler, Jr., Wakefield, R. B. Canary, Bowling Green, Ohio, C. E. Carey, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, G. A. Chaffee, Warwick, R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H. Kai-Tze Chi, Washington, D. C., C. B. Colton, Dorchester...
...Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed...
...Viceroy's next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became...
...John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went...