focalize
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We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
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
Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
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 Orison Swett Marden
To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.
From The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont
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
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
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
The inevitable result is that the attention of the people has been focalized upon the manufacturing towns and the large cities.
From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.
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
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
