and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

It was the first of two doubles by Robinson, who was in a mood to celebrate.

Buaford Robinson, 23, of 7026 Stewart Av., a CTA bus driver, was slugged and robbed last night by a group of youths at 51st Street and South Park Way.

Robinson was treated at a physician's office for a cut over his left eyebrow and a possible sprained knee.

When 51st Street was reached, Robinson related, he stopped the bus and told the youths he was going to call the CTA supervisor.

In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.

The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

Jackie Robinson was also renowned for the thrilling feat of stealing home, which he famously accomplished in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.

It is a common misconception that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major-league ballplayer ; he was actually only the first after a long gap ( and the first in the modern era ).

To do this, the team selected wide receiver Justin Blackmon in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft and acquired Laurent Robinson in free agency.

Except for Doby, their play in the Negro leagues was a minor factor in their selection: Aaron, Banks, and Mays played in Negro leagues only briefly and after the leagues had declined with the migration of many black players to the integrated minor leagues ; Campanella ( 1969 ) and Robinson ( 1962 ) were selected before the Hall began considering performance in the Negro leagues.

In a June 2005 Sports Illustrated poll of 450 MLB players, Robinson was selected the worst manager in baseball, along with Buck Showalter, then manager of the Texas Rangers.

The Robinson family was selected from among two million volunteers for this mission.

The site selected for the university was a hill known as Mount Oread, which was owned by former Kansas Governor Charles L. Robinson.

* January 23 – Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are selected for the Baseball Hall of Fame in their first years of eligibility.

He was one of five Indians selected by Boudreau and joined Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe as the first black players to be amongst those chosen to participate in the 1949 All-Star Game.

Under Spring, the Labour Party selected Mary Robinson as its candidate in the 1990 presidential election.

Newcastle fearing the relentless ambitions of both men, ultimately chose neither-and instead selected Sir Thomas Robinson.

In January 2010, following a scandal involving his wife Iris Robinson, Robinson temporarily stood down from his position as First Minister and selected Arlene Foster to fulfill the role, under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 2006.

Robinson was selected as DUP candidate for Belfast East during the 1979 general election, a seat which previously had a big Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) majority.

According to Richard Robinson, who wrote the club's official 50th anniversary history, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays were fixed upon as the nights for play … Whoever selected the teams on practising nights had the power to place their men on the field, or appoint substitutes, and the players shall be bound to adhere to their instructions. Robinson also explains the means by which the passing game was developed, The club ... never neglected practice, and this practice was indulged in systematically.

In his playing career, Robinson was selected for the All-Star team in 15 consecutive years (- 74 ), and played in four World Series.

He was unanimously selected the " Rookie of the Year ," becoming the second player after Frank Robinson to receive a unanimous vote.

In 1990, Robinson was selected as Chief of the Experimental Flow Physics Branch at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where he led a group of 35 engineers and scientists engaged in aerodynamics and fluid physics research.

Robinson began applying to become an astronaut in 1983, and was selected to join NASA's astronaut corps in 1995.

* Mary Robinson: selected poems ( 1999 ) by Judith Pascoe

After several auditions, Foster & McErloy eventually selected Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson, and Terry Ellis to become the members of En Vogue, as the girl group came to be called.

In June 1814, the Duke of Wellington selected General Robinson to proceed in command of a brigade to North America, and he accordingly embarked at Bordeaux with battalions of the 27th, 39th, 76th, and 88th regiments, and arrived at Brandypots, 100 miles below Quebec, on 9 August 1814.

James still remained part of the England squad, and was selected as the second-choice goalkeeper behind Robinson for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, though he did not play.

Howard, Kleinschmidt and Robinson were all selected to the 10-member first team of Parade magazine's 40-member high school All-America boys ' basketball team.

After the season, Howard was selected as a first team All-Big-Ten member along with his teammate Rose, Purdue's Robinson, Michigan State's Shawn Respert, and Indiana's Damon Bailey.