Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your statement that time in Japan is reckoned from the date of enthronement of Jimmu Tenno is correct, in that classical writings and historians refer to that date. But in their everyday life, the Japanese reckon time from the date of the enthronement of the Emperor who is on the throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign...
...fighting another for the power which was generated by his own inventions. First were the days of Boone and of the pioneers, who sacrificed everything for adventure and for virgin land crept west from the Mississippi in their clumsy prairie schooners. If those men and women had stopped to reckon costs, where would they have been? Hill, and Vanderbilt, and the elder Morgan, would have laughed to scorn the man who questioned every motive before it even crossed his lips...
Immediately the kidnappers, who had their victims bound and blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them...
...week. It was identified as Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a racketeering lady of light virtue. She had been strangled to death with a clothesline. With the discovery of her corpse, the city's fetid judiciary investigation, hitherto concerned with Extortion, Bribery and Corruption, now had to reckon with Murder...
...much about the narrow religious horizons of Englishmen in the 17th Century and their desire to persecute Catholics. After dis- cussion with the Tercentenary Commission, however, he orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when the New Canaan would be largely occupied by men of the splendid Irish race, whom they held in deep contempt, or of the noble Roman faith, which they regarded with deep abhorrence...