…(1904–86), British-born American actor; born Alexander Archibald Leach. He acted in more than seventy films, including Holiday (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940)…
…(1885–1978), Scottish painter and designer, a pioneer of abstract art in Britain; full name Duncan James Corrow Grant. He was a cousin of Lytton Strachey and a member of the Bloomsbury Group…
…(1822–85), American general and 18th President of the US 1869–77; born Hiram Ulysses Grant; full name Ulysses Simpson Grant. As supreme commander of the Union armies, he defeated the Confederate army in 1865 with a policy of attrition…
…financial assistance, especially money that is granted by central government to local government or an institution…
…a grant from central government which a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services…
…(in the UK) a state grant towards funeral expenses (abolished under the Social Security Act 1986)…
…a grant of public land, especially to an institution or to American Indians…
…(1892–1942), US artist; full name Grant De Volsen Wood. He is most noted for his scenes of his native Iowa in paintings such as Woman with Plant(s) (1929), American Gothic (1930), and Spring in Town (1941)…
…an amount of money given to local government, an institution, or a particular scholar…
…(of a school) funded by central rather than local government, and self-governing…
…(in the UK) a fee-paying school that received funds from the government in return for the admission of non-paying pupils nominated by the local authority…
…(1891–1941), Canadian physiologist and surgeon. With the assistance of C. H. Best, Banting discovered insulin in 1921-2, using it to treat the previously incurable and fatal disease diabetes. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1923, shared with J. J. R. Macleod)…
…(1822–85), American general and 18th President of the US 1869–77; born Hiram Ulysses Grant; full name Ulysses Simpson Grant. As supreme commander of the Union armies, he defeated the Confederate army in 1865 with a policy of attrition…
…(1822–85), American general and 18th President of the US 1869–77; born Hiram Ulysses Grant; full name Ulysses Simpson Grant. As supreme commander of the Union armies, he defeated the Confederate army in 1865 with a policy of attrition…
…(1892–1942), US artist; full name Grant De Volsen Wood. He is most noted for his scenes of his native Iowa in paintings such as Woman with Plant(s) (1929), American Gothic (1930), and Spring in Town (1941)…
…(1885–1978), Scottish painter and designer, a pioneer of abstract art in Britain; full name Duncan James Corrow Grant. He was a cousin of Lytton Strachey and a member of the Bloomsbury Group…
