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Football "scholarships" are not the bootstrapping grants-in-aid portrayed in sports mythology; they are semester-to-semester contracts at the almost sole discretion of the coaches.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021

The history of grants-in-aid goes back more than 200 years, to the period before the Constitution.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Sigma Delta Epsilon created a program of grants-in-aid to help women who had been away from careers in service of domestic responsibilities—giving preference to applicants who were 35 or older.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2014

We need to reinvent federal grants-in-aid to states, drain the federal for-profit contracting swamps and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.

From Washington Post

Could not the Government do something for them, either by billeting soldiers or by direct grants-in-aid?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir