focalize
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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 Orison Swett Marden
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
If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
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 Henry Frederick Cope
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Many men are not conscious of the light that shineth within them, save as there is an aggregate of cell consciousness which recognizes its focalized power as an organism.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
One does not expect spectacular variety in the life of an educator, particularly in one whose labors for fifty years were focalized on one spot.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
When the attention was focalized in this way, the subject lost sight of the space as a whole.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
In history attention must be focalized on modern movements College history courses end thirty to fifty years ago.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper
This individualistic development of the communal principle is its intensive development; it is the focalizing and centralizing of the consciousness of the national unity in each individual member.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
