Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played in too close. Racehorse Russell Saunders...
...dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent the car zigzagging from curb to curb as the little man fired again and again. Other pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard were on all sides of the would-be assassin after his fifth shot. He dropped, then lay on the pavement while detectives and firemen closed in and sent 20 bullets crashing into his kicking, bleeding body till muscular reaction ceased. A block from the scene...