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Word: sandbank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 1,000 years, brave and able seamen have feared the Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile sandbank just north of Dover. Thousands of ships have foundered in their sucking sands; with the hulks are buried tens of thousands of seamen, and cargoes of gold, silver and jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Low Island | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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