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Last week Author Lewis explained that he had been offering Yale University his Nobel Prize Medal for its "permanent loan exhibit," that the university authorities were "very uncordial about it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Adzhubei had a private talk with Kennedy that was described only as "wide-ranging," "candid" and "not uncordial"; Jackie Kennedy took Rada on a tour of the White House nursery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Doubtless he felt his uncordial relations with his colleagues irksome, but we can also hardly doubt that the attraction Pitt was beginning to exercise over him formed a material factor in his resolve.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

Moreover, in spite of the generous action taken by outstanding individuals, the general mass of Unionist opinion was grudging and uncordial.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

We wrote him out a note which would explain his wanderings, got him to deposit us near a Y. M. C. A. tent, and bade him an uncordial "Good-bye."

From The Glory of the Trenches by Dawson, Coningsby