See Also: Ordovician Period(encyclopedia)
Ferber, Edna(encyclopedia)
Ordovician(medicine)
Ordovician(dictionary)
Time period principle or accounting period assumption(finance)
T-period holding-period return(finance)
T-period holding-period return(money)
Period certain(finance)
Net period(money)
period(1)(dictionary)

Ferber, Edna (sh) and Ordovician Period (sh)


Ferber, Edna (sh)




born Aug. 15, 1887, Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.
died April 16, 1968, New York, N.Y.

U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Ferber began her career at age 17 as a reporter in Wisconsin. Her early stories were collected in Emma McChesney & Co. (1915) and Other volumes. She won critical acclaim for such novels as So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize) and Show Boat (1926), which, with Music by Jerome Kern, became a seminal work of the American musical theatre. Among her later works is the novel Giant (1952; Film, 1956). Her works offer a compassionate, lively portrait of middle-class Midwestern America.


Ordovician Period (sh)




Interval of geologic time, 490-443 million years ago, the second oldest period of the Paleozoic Era.

It follows the Cambrian and precedes the Silurian. During the Ordovician, many of the landmasses were aligned in the tropics. Life was dominated by marine invertebrates, but some forms of land plants may have appeared during the middle of the period. Spores suggesting a tropical terrestrial environment have been found in rocks of that age.