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Baird

/ bɛəd /

noun

  1. BairdJohn Logie18881946MScottishTECHNOLOGY: engineerTECHNOLOGY: inventor John Logie (ˈləʊɡɪ). 1888–1946, Scottish engineer: inventor of a 240-line mechanically scanned system of television, replaced in 1935 by a 405-line electrically scanned system


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Her friends Phyllis Cunningham, 75, and Eva-Lee Baird, 74, stood with her.

“There are a lot of companies playing safe at the moment,” Baird said.

As I staggered out of the screening, the director, Jon S. Baird, was waiting for me at the Soho Hotel in Central London.

By then Baird had been working on the project for three years.

“There were many times when we felt like this wasn't going to happen at all,” Baird explains.

It was Lady Baird's birthday feast to which we had been bidden, and we had done our best to honour the occasion.

Lady Baird has sent the veil, and a wonderful diamond thistle to pin it on,—a jewel fit for a princess!

Baird, in the original description, gives "near Fort Massachusetts" as the type locality for this subspecies.

People always said of John Baird that he was a brilliant man and that a great career lay before him.

Mrs. Baird went to the south of France with her child and nurse and a party of friends, and remained there for a year.

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