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
Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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 bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
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
