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 Blossom, Henry M.

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

Now comes one of those remarkable facts of super-epochal history," continues Bonsall, "which go to show that when revolutionary periods focalize, revolutions in public sentiment are brought about in almost a twinkling.

From Labor and Freedom by Debs, Eugene V.

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

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