She could see a string of logs tearing down the skid-road.

They took their lives in their hands on skid-road and spring-board, that such as she might flourish.

Here also were the magnetic-anchor release and the air-skid pump control; here were telephonic connections with the wireless-room and with the fore-and-aft observation pits, where observers were already lying on their cushions upon the heavy, metal-reinforced glass floor-plates.

Thrown heavily against Victor, then instantly back to her place, she felt the car, with brakes set fast, turn broadside to the road, skid crabwise, and lurch sickeningly into the ditch on the farther side.

As soon as the air-skid currents should be set going, she would be ready for her flight.

Some say they can take it or leave it, but many did that for awhile and today they are on "skid row."