"Normal distribution" Quotes from Famous Books
... for a great quantity of food clothing and footwear to be collected there, but those in charge of these supplies did not realise the state of disorganisation into which the army had fallen, and insisted on the paperwork and formalities of a normal distribution. This delay so exasperated the men, who were dying of cold and hunger, that they broke into the stores and took forcibly, whatever they could. With the result that some had too much, some enough and ... — The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot |