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I also wonder if having a quadrant-type reverse lever (instead of a screw) would have allowed the engineer to simply center the reverser and shut her down?

That wouldn't have mattered, since the engine will keep right on running with the gear "on center", due to the "lap & lead". Essentially the same effect as built in "initial timing advance" in the distributor of an internal combustion gasoline engine.
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