AWA

abbreviation for

(Broadcasting) Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd

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'Come awa' from th' bed!' He was sitting on the side of it, with his face hidden in his hands.

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The natives, just as I had expected, started up, while some of them asked, 'Arware poo awa, Tommo?'(where are you going, Tommo?) 'Wai' (water) I laconically answered, grasping the calabash.

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McIntyre said, quite easy, "he might as weel be awa'.

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O coming suddenly to the brow of the precipice, it was a gran spectacle to see between twenty and thirty of these grea birds start heavily from their resting-place, and wheel awa in majestic circles.

If the condors glide down, and then suddenl all rise together, the Chileno knows that it is the pum which, watching the carcass, has sprung out to drive awa the robbers.

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"First of all, Samuel Dundee an' Agnes Hewitt; the next day Albert Mahan an' Minnie Duncan; an' by the week-end Eddie Troy and Flo Mackintosh--all sailor-men, an' un sux weeks' time the last of them back tull their ships an' awa', an' no one o' them dreamin' of the wuckedness they'd been ot."

Up he jumps an' calls for horse an' saddle, an' awa' he goes like the wund for Albert Mahan's.

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'Old wooman awa', bean't she?' said Mr Browdie, with his mouth full.

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After a decade of campaigns and six elections, they were well informed of the AWA's faults and merits.

Reckoning with company unions: the case of Thompson Products, 1934-1964

AWA pet clinic promotions include cat spay/neuters in June that will be rolled back to their 1972 price and, on select days in September, rabies vaccine pricing will be rolled back to $7.