Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor...
...Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation, then always...
...berth vacated by All American Bob MacLeod. Krieger is fast, shifty, and a skilled pigakinalinger. He can, if necessary, handle the punting assignment. "Cowboy" Bu Hayden, Jack Orr and Jim Banman are competing for the fourth backfield position. It's a wide open fight with Hayden holding a slight advantage since his pass-catching ability fits in most closely with the scher... of things at Hanover this year...
Another Bates game starter may yield his starting place against the Maroons in the battle at right end. Bart Kelly has shown a slight edge over Devine in practice this week, and may get the call...
However, other lineup switches were felt imminent, if not before the Chicago game. Jim Devine and Bartow Kelly are still fighting for the right end berth. And Gone Lovett, now recovered from a slight injury, will be well up in that controversy...