Twenty One

Until next year, when I shall be twenty-one, that is. ❋ FIONA BUCKLEY (2000)

The Selective Training and Service Act, signed into law by Roosevelt in September 1940, required that men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five register with local draft boards. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

It was a daring bet, but we put our delegate operation into overdrive, and in the last week of May we turned over a list of twenty-one hundred delegates to Rob Gunnison, a political reporter and chief delegate counter for UPI. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

It is sandwiched between one modern high rise office building on the north and a twenty-one story landmark built in 1905 on the south. ❋ Neil McCarthy (2011)

The twenty-one economies of APEC are among the most dynamic in the world. ❋ Hillary Clinton (2011)

Now, New Jersey Public Radio owned and operated by New York Public Radio is creating the New Jersey News Service and Montclair State University is establishing the NJ Digital Media Initiative, and they'll work together to deliver public interest journalism for the twenty-one counties, 566 municipalities, 604 school districts, and all the independent authorities - almost too many to count - that operate in the state. ❋ Bill Moyers (2011)

Twenty-one states require children to attend school until the age of 18; eight states require attendance until age 17; twenty-one states require attendance until age 16. ❋ Laura McNeal (2012)

The dialogue is perhaps most remarkable for the sheer number of people said to be in attendance: a total of twenty-one are named as present. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)