Word: cod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort of Lindbergh among Egyptologists-kept...