"Undermanned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seaman's fight. Each man did that which seemed to him expedient for the safety of the ship. The Croonah was fully equipped for fine weather—for cleaning brasses and swabbing decks and bending awnings; but for bad weather—notably for a cyclone—she was perilously undermanned. Half of the native crew were paralysed by fear, many were killed, others drowned from a mere incapacity ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... the Smithsonian, Wistar, Carnegie and Rockefeller Institutes in the United States; the list of research institutes of important dimensions (excluding astronomical observatories) is, I believe, practically exhausted by the above enumeration, and many of them are woefully undermanned and underequipped. At least two of them, the Solvay Institute wholly, and the Frankfort Institute for Experimental Therapy in part, owe their existence and continuance to scientific men, Solvay and Ehrlich, who have contrived ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86 |
