In 1935 (the year before the Berlin Olympics), Jesse Owens set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 26 ft 8 in, and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by Ralph Boston in 1960.
The rank-size rule (or rank-size distribution) of city populations, is a commonly observed statistical relationship between the population sizes and population ranks of a nationâs cities.
Definition of size for Students. 1  1 : amount of space occupied by someone or something : how large or small someone or something is â¦ the sword â¦ was just the right size and weight for Peter to use. 2  2 : the number or amount of people or things The population grows in size.