focalize
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Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
Those to whom the development of character is a reality will watch tendencies and train them before they focalize in crises.
From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick
The eye that is normally shaped forms pictures of objects, more than a few feet distant, on its back wall without any muscular effort, and has to focalize only when engaged in near work.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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