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9.572 is much faster than 10.2, so the debate is settled. So at first glance, this is a real easy debate. Usain Bolt’s personal best was 9.572 which he set in Berlin at the 2009 world championships. Jessie Owens’ personal best in the 100m was 10.2 seconds which he set at the NCAA championships in Chicago in 1936. So with that, let’s start the discussion with their personal best’s for each athlete. Also, I could have picked almost any two-track stars to make this comparison, but these two men are both very well known and are far enough apart in time that the differences between them are much more glaring. So it should be relatively easy compared to other sports to do a temporal comparison between athletes.

You run quickly over a short distance, and that’s it. The reason why I want to focus on these two athletes is that the 100m is a very simple event. This is always an issue when trying to compare baseball players because there are so many variables you have to account for.

When doing comparisons across time with athletes, there are always major difficulties. You might think the answer is obvious, but the truth is anything but, as you will find out on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is going to try and answer an impossible, yet interesting question: who would win in a race between Jessie Owens and Usain Bolt? Usain Bolt is the current world record holder in the men’s’ 100m and won the gold medal in 2016, 2012, and 2008 Olympics. His 100m world record stood longer than anyone else’s in the event. He is famous for winning 4 gold medals in one Olympics and foiling Hitler’s plans for the Berlin games. Jessie Ownes was the world record holder in the men’s 100m dash and won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. To learn more, see the privacy policy.Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Amazon | Player.FM | TuneIn Castbox | Stitcher | Podcast Republic | RSS | Patreon

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The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a 'search engine for words', or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes).

For example, if you type something like 'longing for a time in the past', then the engine will return 'nostalgia'. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple.