|Question 24Verbal

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Roger Angell's reputation as one of the greatest baseball writers of all ______ bolstered by dozens of New Yorker essays in which he demonstrated a deep affection for and knowledge of the game, has perhaps overshadowed his remarkable career as a fiction editor: during his decades-long tenure at the New Yorker, Angell helped shape the work of John Updike, Ann Beattie, and other contributors of note.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
time was
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time,
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time had been
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time, was
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